When comparing Deepin DE vs UKUI, the Slant community recommends Deepin DE for most people. In the question“What are the best UNIX-like Desktop Environments for everyday users?” Deepin DE is ranked 7th while UKUI is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Deepin DE is:
Deepin DE has some blur designs which make it very beautiful.
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Pros
Pro Very beautiful
Deepin DE has some blur designs which make it very beautiful.
Pro Easy to use
Deepin DE is very simple.
Pro Stable
Pro Includes quality programs
It has some of it's own programs which are quite beautiful.
Pro A modern de for Linux
Deepin is the first DE for Linux which looks and acts like a modern environment. Basically, Deepin succede where Gnome 3 failed
Pro Quite lightweight
Deepin 15.7 has been optimized and now uses less than half the system resources of prior editions.
Pro Has a Windows-like and Mac-like interface
Easily switchable between the two, as well!
Pro Available for a lot of distros
Deepin DE is currently supported on Deepin OS, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Gentoo, Fedora, Sparky Linux, Puppy Linux, Pardus, Antergos and Manjaro.
Pro Touchscreen-friendly
Pro Option to turn off mouse acceleration in the settings
Pro Simplified MATE
Pro Nice feel
It's more like Windows 8 but besides that, it looks great.
Pro Stylish
Cons
Con Not very customizable
Con Bling Bling instead of features
Con Great DE, horrible distro
The Deepin linux distro offers its own empty package manager, and has lots of bugs. The DE and core apps are great though.
Con Buggy
Many features do not immediately work.
Con Not installable on Ubuntu/Debian
[UPDATE: Check out UbuntuDDE, a project trying to get DDE on Ubuntu and usable to normies like you]
At least, not easily, and not without potential problems. If you Want Deepin DE, use Deepin Linux, or grab Manjaro's DDE spin, or install manually on Arch Linux. Antergos, ArchLabs or similar.
Con Poor translations
Con Goes contrary to the concept of customizability
If you want non-configurability, go back to windows or mac. This is a step back for Linux.
Con Good but not available for many Linux distro
Con Terrible for desktop use
Con Not fully translated
Con UI isn't optimized for lower end pc/laptops
Super slow UI that could take 3-6 seconds to popup. Gnome was slow but UKUI was very sluggish in comparison.
Con Looks like Windows 8
It just looks like Windows 8.