Desktop Appearance
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The general appearance and functionality of the desktop in Linux is known as the Desktop Environment Several choices are available:
LXDE and XFCE are suited where:
- only a few apps are required
- older or lower resource hardware will be used
GNOME and its derivatives, CINNAMON and MATE
- provide most apps likely to be required
- require moderate hardware resources
KDE is the most functional desktop
- with trade-off of greater resource requirements, particularly RAM
All Desktop Environments provide for multiple instances of the desktop to be loaded simultaneously
- facilitates rapid switching between running apps
- but requires much additional RAM
Those upgrading from an older Linux running KDE3 should follow:
