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GNOME is one of the most popular environments. Major design changes with the 3.0 release sparked the creation of Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3), Unity (an alternative Gnome Desktop Session to GNOME Shell) and MATE (a fork of GNOME 2). KDE Plasma 5 (KDE5, KDE Plasma Workspaces, formerly K Desktop Environment or simply KDE) 1998-07-12
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Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, which was originally based on GNOME 3, but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions. The development of Cinnamon began by the Linux Mint team as the result of the April 2011 release of GNOME 3, in which the conventional desktop ...
KWin (KDE) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LeftWM: Matchbox: EWMH compliance No No Yes Metacity (GNOME) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Mutter (GNOME/MeeGo) Yes Yes Yes Yes Gnome Shell No Yes Moody: Motif Window Manager (mwm) No No Yes No [h] Openbox: Yes Depends [c] Yes Yes Depends [c] No Yes PekWM: Yes No Yes Partial No Yes Yes PlayWM [citation needed ...
Kubuntu (/ k ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / kuu-BUUN-too) [3] is an official flavor of the Ubuntu operating system that uses the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the GNOME desktop environment. As part of the Ubuntu project, Kubuntu uses the same underlying systems.
As GNOME and KDE focus on high-performance computers, users of less powerful or older computers often prefer alternative desktop environments specifically created for low-performance systems. Most commonly used lightweight desktop environments include LXDE and Xfce ; they both use GTK+ , which is the same underlying toolkit GNOME uses.
Ubuntu Cinnamon is a community-driven, free and open-source Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, using the Cinnamon desktop environment in place of Ubuntu's GNOME Shell.The first release was 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' on December 4, 2019, and is the first official distribution to use Ubuntu with the Cinnamon desktop.
Sabayon Linux uses the latest version of GNOME Shell. openSUSE's GNOME edition has used GNOME Shell since version 12.1 in November 2011. [30] Mageia 2 and later include GNOME Shell, since May 2012. [31] Debian 8 and later features GNOME Shell in the default desktop, since April 2015. [32] [33] Solaris 11.4 replaced GNOME 2 with GNOME Shell in ...