A Desktop Environment (DE) in a Linux-based operating system can be best described as a complete desktop interface, as opposed to a Window Manager in which you have to quite literally build your own ...

Not all Linux desktop environments are created equal. Some desktops are better suited for skilled Linux users. There are some desktops that make new users feel right at home. One aspect of Linux that ...

In my many years of using Linux, I’ve worked with just about every desktop environment ever created for the open-source platform. Some of those desktops are highly customizable, while others are less ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Korbin is a Linux system administrator who spends most of his time in a terminal figuring out how things actually work. Over the last decade he's written hundreds of articles about Linux configuration ...