Desktop environments, not distros, control your daily interactions with Linux. Desktop environments dictate how your system looks and operates with customization options. Distro choice impacts ...

In today's open source roundup: Five of the best lightweight desktops for Linux. Plus: Ars Technica reviews Linux Mint 17.2. And DistroWatch reviews Semplice Linux 7.

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 ...

One of the best advantages Linux has over Windows and macOS can also be the most confusing. Let's learn what the heck a Desktop Environment is!

Although Linux absolutely dominates the enterprise backend, it still struggles on the desktop. This is not only the case for business users but for home as well. What is the reason for this? The ...

Xfce. Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment that's based on the GTK+ 2, and built for Linux, Solaris, and BSD-based systems. It's fast, flexible, actively updated, and designed to be fast and ...

KDE 3 (the other king of Linux desktop environments over the last decade) is dead as well – with KDE 4, again, changing darn near everything you can think of.

Besides GNOME and KDE, Cinnamon is undoubtedly one of the best Linux desktop environments to try out in 2022. The Linux Mint community is the home for this desktop. Linux Mint forked out the GNOME 3 ...

Linux is all about choice, and choosing a distribution is only the first step. Linux distros usually have a default desktop environment, but there are a slew of desktop environments available to ...

There's no shortage of ways to customize your Linux installation, but one of the biggest is choosing your desktop environment. Some distributions have a preferred one, but you can always change it ...

If you're not happy with the desktop environment your chosen distribution uses, you have plenty of options available to you. Find out how easy it can be to install here.