My experience is with whatever Gnome-centered desktop ships with Ubuntu. It's on a headless box that I shut off today for ¤reasons, so I have no clue what it's called.

I have no idea what Canonical calls it either. It's basically just a skin that makes Gnome look a bit more shit as far as I can tell.

Her daily experience with the shit webdev/mobdev pumps out daily is not good

I thought this was about C-niles, but apparently all mobile and web devs are shit as well. I'm sure that random mobile and web apps are somehow very relevant to Linux DEs being accessible or not, but since you already "know better", there's no need to discuss this further really.