Linux desktop environments have come a long way in the last few years. Once upon a time the KDE user interface looked a lot like Windows while GNOME provided a simple UI with panels at the top and ...

Tired of desktop environments (DEs) that keep “improving” things that already worked perfectly? Does your modern Linux ...

Are you confused by all the options available among different Linux desktop environments? Do you want to know how they compare to and differ from one another? Well, I tested 10 popular Linux desktop ...

I've been running MATE as my one and only environment for the last week. And boy howdy, do I have an opinion. I started out my “use every Linux Desktop Environment for a week at a time” endeavor with ...

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 use.

So far in this series I have looked at Xfce (lightweight but full-featured), KDE (one view of the future of desktops, extremely configurable), Gnome 3 (a very different view of the future, very ...

We've taken you through a tour of Window Managers in Linux, and now it's time to show you the Window Manager's bigger brother: the desktop environment, or DE for short. With a sea of choices out there ...

Here’s how you can install the MATE desktop on your Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon system. This will let you use either desktop by switching the desktop session on the Linux Mint 13 login menu. 1. Click the ...

PCLinuxOS is as close as a distro can get to masking all the technical things that scare people away from the Linux OS.It makes installing and using the distro beginner-level easy. That says a lot for ...

This week Canonical released Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and while the company is emphasizing cloud features and performance, there are plenty of updates for desktop users too. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has a new Linux ...