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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:
* [[KDE 4 Desktop Environment]]

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Rpeters: Created page with "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: *o..."