When comparing Common Desktop Environment vs Deepin DE, 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 Common Desktop Environment is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Deepin DE is:
Deepin DE has some blur designs which make it very beautiful.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Useful for low-end devices
As Linux moves into low-end territory with the likes of Raspberry PI, CDE's level of consumption seems extremely small. When it was first developed, 128MB or RAM was a lot.
Pro Stays out of your way
Has the drawer concept and the middle button on the mouse has a use again.
Pro Mature
CDE was developed more than 20 years ago to work as a unified DE for all the various forms of commercial, proprietary Unix operating systems that dominated the market back then: AIX, TRU64, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX etc...
Nowadays it's released as an open source Desktop Environment for Linux. It comes as a free tested, widely deployed and enterprise-level product even if it's recently re-release as FOSS for Linux.
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
Cons
Con Outdated UI
The graphical interface is very outdated and ugly. It's mostly for lower-end machines and for people who want to give their Linux machine a true UNIX feel.
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.