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::: As for the large number of DEs on that thread, feel free to add some of them. Beware, though: as far as I know WindowMaker and UDE (despite it's name) are only window managers; not full DEs, and I can't find any evidence that Zorin Linux actually has it's own desktop environment. All the sources I can find with a brief search say it uses Gnome. [[User:Caeciliusinhorto|Caeciliusinhorto]] ([[User talk:Caeciliusinhorto|talk]]) 12:34, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
== Question on adding GNOME-based and others ==
The list mentions MATE (I guess because of it being a GNOME2 fork), but misses Cinnamon <ref>http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/</ref>.
Besides the discussions on differences between Window Managers and Desktop Environments, how do you think we should treat forks or alternatives that keep roots in the original project (Cinnamon, or Budgie <ref>https://solus-project.com/budgie/</ref> for GNOME3) or inner variants such as Plasma Active for KDE?
For a comparison, besides project philosophy, toolkit and estimated disk footprint some other real metrics such as memory footprint <ref>https://l3net.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/a-memory-comparison-of-light-linux-desktops/</ref> would be a good addition, and while I agree that the referenced article falls victim to the confusion between window managers and full blown desktop environment, the fact that he listed all of them hints that this article should mention and/or reference exclusions, clearly state the rules of exclusions (missing utilities or certain features to qualify as one) and mention them as alternatives to implicit window managers in the second table where applicable (I'm thinking also of Compiz and Metacity besides Openbox).
Also for the GNOME column the file manager is called Nautilus (Cinnamon calls it Nemo) and the browser is called (or codenamed...) Epiphany.
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