General Discussion • Re: Linux has over 6% of the desktop market

Only thing lacking is that it can be hard to install the latest version of all desktop environments if you aren’t able to compile them yourself.

Yes for sure, and especially if you want the latest Gnome or KDE, you absolutely must use a bleeding edge distro like Fedora or Arch. If Gnome or KDE came out with a new release two weeks before launch date, Fedora would include it, whereas Debian would test it for about a year first. Any stable or LTS distro is just going to be nearly impossible to backport a full Gnome or KDE to. But in terms of applications, most of them are pretty straightforward to backport the latest versions to a recent LTS distro.