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XFCE is better than both.
Good joke
XCFE feels like it came from that XP/Vista period where UIs were moving away from looking like they were drawn in a terminal but hadn't quite reached "fluidity" or whatever other bs marketers call modern UIs... I could understand a tiling dm being called better than both but given XCFE is only better at being lightweight, that's a self-placed restriction because it's very reasonable to say most people can run either KDE or Gnome with virtually undetectable overhead
Xfce is highly customizable (definitely more than gnome) and can look modern with a little theming. Its also much easier to replace components of the de (like the xfce wm or app launcher for example)
I'm sure you could make it look like whatever your head meat blob can come up with, but eventually you're five hours deep in a rabbit hole nobody has ever gone down and uncovering software bugs that god himself didn't know about, just trying to make the damn thing usable.
On GNOME, I don't have to worry about any of that - the OOTB experience is just fine. For anyone.
I meant just changing the icon pack and panel theme which is not that difficult and some people may be fine with the default. Not saying gnome or kde are worse, just that xfce is not as bad as you think it is :)
I don't know, that was my experience on KDE. I got it to behave and look the way I wanted, but it was slow, buggy, and prone to crashing. I've never gone near anything "customizable" since.