In your experience, what is more stable, faster, safer for you and what do you use? I used to use Gnome and often had the problem of extensions breaking when I had to replace some extensions, disable something, inconvenience, and also encountered some bugs on Gnome that are not present on KDE. I have a bug on Gnome with Wayland where the keyboard layout doesn’t switch 1 time, that’s a bug.
depends on the distro, KDE gets more frequent updates on rolling releases or semi rolling ones that fixes bugs faster than Gnome.
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Can’t comment on Gnome as I simply can’t stand the UI thus avoided all distros using it but personally I have no issues with KDE at all. Never had a crash with it so I’m pretty happy with it overall. I’m running immutable fedora ublue spins (bazzite on my gaming HTPC and aurora-dx on my private rig) which has been rock solid for the past one year since I’ve been dailying them.
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I use Gnome (with Dash to Panel and ArcMenu) mainly because it feels more polished to me. To your 3 points (stable, speed, safer) I’d say they are pretty similar, the only thing I remember is that KDE had problems with global themes (KDE advises extreme caution after theme wipes Linux user's files) but I think thats fixed by now (not sure).
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I am currently using GNOME and that’s the best DE I’ve ever used it. It’s polish and stable. The apps look great and it’s doesn’t feel harder to use, it’s easy! And some extensions are great like OpenBar (to make your top bar look fancy).
I’ve tested KDE as my daily driver for a day and the experience isn’t bad. It’s just that there’s too many settings lol. I know that’s one of the strengths of KDE but for myself I can’t stand. I want a simple experience OOTB so that’s why.
In terms of security, I have heard GNOME is safer but I’m not an expert on this topic so yeah…
What I could definitely say though is that these 2 DEs are great to use. Test them first and see what you like.
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This debate will go on forever. If you are unsure, nothing stops you from either trying both, or installing both or live booting to test.
I find KDE completely smokes Gnome across the board ever since Plasma 5. It uses less memory and works extremely well. The layout is same as a person is used to from Windows and MacOS. If you don’t want to configure something, simply ignore it.
Either will always have the occasional bug or screw up, because it is simply the nature of things.
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GNOME excels on point-release distros like Debian or Fedora, while KDE is best on rolling releases like with Arch.
GNOME extensions breaking on updates is an issue that can be almost completely avoided if you can choose when you want to update. On a similar note, I find that a lot of new GNOME features need a lot more time in the oven and are full of bugs on release.
KDE is always releasing new bug fixes and even features outside their point releases, and I find the best way to get stability is running a rolling release distro to get everything right away. Because a lot of KDE features are so cutting edge, they come with more severe bugs, and you’re going to want the fixes to those right away.
I prefer GNOME, but I think what desktop you use is going to depend on your preferred distro, or vice versa. Not to say that you can’t run these desktops on different distros, but from experience, this is the best way to avoid problems that come with each.
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I’ve been using Fedora Gnome and I just switched to KDE yesterday and I upgraded to Fedora 42
I think KDE is more stable “for me” and I like it more
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But both variants gets a support from Google and Canonical as it can see at the footer of they websites (bottom).
So, I assume that these graphical environments somehow collaborate with those companies, or why they gets this support so? But I could be wrong.
I use Mint (Gnome) and it works solidly for me. I tried Kubuntu (Ubuntu with KDE) as a VM on my windows machine and that might have been what ate my WiFi ability and forced a fresh Win10 install. I could very well be wrong though.
GNOME. I gave KDE a shot two or three times this year and I found it a bit too clunky and awkward from an aesthetic perspective, and incredibly frustrating & tedious to set things up in a familiar, equivalent manner to how I had things with GNOME (keyboard shortcuts, dock, top menu bar, window zones, switching workspaces, some Wine settings, and more). I spent more time trying to fix and alter things rather than be productive.
I use Fedora, for what it’s worth.
Short answer, no. They do not “collaborate” as in the common sense. They help fund a project, but that never factually implies “I’m making the decisions for you”. You draw your own connections if you want, but Canonical and Google benefit from and rely on KDE and GNOME not dying and being healthy. First of all because Ubuntu and Kubuntu are Canonical’s best players and they rely on these independently motivated developers to keep these desktop projects updated with the times. And Google is notorious for using open source code, and heavily modifying it for their projects to make the production costs cheaper, and this is no exception. ChromeOS might not look like a Linux distribution, but it is. But any sign of Linux has been hidden away to keep the brand “beginner friendly”.
Ok. I will know 
. Thanks for a comment about this theme. But I already switched to Xfce because of this 
P.S: But if be honestly - KDE a more beauty for me was be. I’ve try to use GNOME - but it was be unusual.
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I want to like KDE so bad but it’s just super bad with UX in practice. Sure it looks similar to Windows but it’s pretty downhill from there
I wish Instead of they’d put the generic name of their apps in the menus instead of the application name because it can confuse the user. The amount of times I’ve clicked the wrong “Dolphin” application has pissed me off enough
Customization is KDE’s main appeal but I see little point in theming these days as it won’t be consistent across applications especially with Flatpak. The tiling window management features are fun but in practice I don’t really find it all that more productive.
I pretty much use vanilla GNOME without extensions because I think its better for me to adjust to the desktop rather then getting used to a workflow for then that to only break in the next major version. Other than some stutters I have had very little issues with GNOME
Using Kubuntu a couple years ago I had issues with triple displays loosing their arrangement configuration literally all the time. While not a critical issue, after resetting the arrangement for the umpteenth time it was QUITE annoying. This was on x11 still.
I use EndeavourOS now, dual displays, much larger displays, also KDE (because I love kde). It runs over Wayland now and of course, it’s been a few years so KDE itself has been updating and adding new features.
I find it pretty much rock solid with one rare exception. After a period of sleep/hibernation, the displays sleeping not the PC itself, I tap the keyboard and when the displays wake up one of them is set to the basic NVIDIA drv at 640 x 480 resolution. Yah, that’s annoying. Simple fix, turn the offending display off, wait 2-3 seconds, turn it back on, all good. It has only happens about 4-5 times in the past 3 months, however, I turn my PC off at night so for all I know this is not as rare of an issue as I believe it is.
Turning “deep sleep” off on the displays them selves helped reduce the frequency of this minor, but annoying issue.
The display’s in question are: 2x LG 34" UltraGear™ OLED Curved Gaming Monitor WQHD FreeSync ( LG34GS95QE )
I have a 1200 watt power supply and a 5080 so power is probably not an issue.
Other than that, and for me, kde is pretty awesome 
Each to their own is the beautiful thing about Linux.
You “one of the strengths of KDE but for myself I can’t stand. I want a simple experience OOTB so that’s why” LIKE when the settings are hidden, or unavailable.
I like to fiddle so “all those settings” are a play ground for me.
I want to create another one topic after I have heard all of these…
AFAIK Plasma global themes could execute arbitrary code.[1]
Secureblue has some great info on this. At time of writing, GNOME seems to utilize the most security features. Plasma is expected to make improvements in the next (6.4) update, but it looks like they’d still remain a bit behind GNOME on security features. You can also harden GNOME!
It’s also worth mentioning that many GNOME users install GNOME extensions to make the desktop usable, however extensions come with their own security and stability risks which makes comparing the security of GNOME + extensions versus vanilla Plasma tricky.