![]() It’s a very slick interface, but whether you like it is still just a matter of taste. It’s polished, but still maintains more of a traditional desktop look and feel, in contrast to both Gnome 3 and Unity. KDE is the other major desktop environment of choice in the Unix and Linux world. Like Unity, it’s engendered some controversy, but hey, one of the pastimes of Linux users is fighting with each other over which is the best program! One of the major changes in GNOME 3 has been the GNOME Shell, which superficially resembles Ubuntu’s Unity interface. Qt has since been open sourced, but there is still a rivalry going on between GNOME and Qt. The license was proprietary at the time, even though KDE was open source. It started under the auspices of Richard Stallman’s GNU project due to a controversy over the licensing of the Qt toolkit that KDE used. GNOME is one of the major desktops in the Linux world. The advantage to this approach is that you get to mix and match all the various options for your utilities, helping you get exactly the desktop you want. If you want a more minimalist approach to your interface, you can just stick with a window manager. A desktop environment includes a window manager, but it also provides some other goodies, like a file manager (similar to the Windows Explorer for the Mac Finder) and other small applications.
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