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Cinnamon-Settings, included since May 2013 (version 1.8 onwards), combines the functionality of GNOME-Control-Center with that of Cinnamon-Settings, and made it possible to manage and update applets, extensions, desklets, actions, and themes through Cinnamon-Settings. Gnome-Screensaver was also forked into what is now called Cinnamon-Screensaver.
KWin (KDE) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes LeftWM: Matchbox: EWMH compliance No No Yes Metacity (GNOME) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Mutter (GNOME/MeeGo) Yes Yes Yes Yes Gnome Shell No Yes Moody: Motif Window Manager (mwm) No No Yes No [h] Openbox: Yes Depends [c] Yes Yes Depends [c] No Yes PekWM: Yes No Yes Partial No Yes Yes PlayWM [citation needed ...
GNOME is one of the most popular environments. Major design changes with the 3.0 release sparked the creation of Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3), Unity (an alternative Gnome Desktop Session to GNOME Shell) and MATE (a fork of GNOME 2). KDE Plasma 5 (KDE5, KDE Plasma Workspaces, formerly K Desktop Environment or simply KDE) 1998-07-12
In the extreme case - user can use a computer without a GUI and even browse the internet in a terminal, without images, in Lynx, on a weak computer. A light-weight Linux distribution is a Linux distribution that uses lower memory and processor-speed requirements than a more "feature-rich" Linux distribution.
Besides the Linux distributions designed for general-purpose use on desktops and servers, distributions may be specialized for different purposes including computer architecture support, embedded systems, stability, security, localization to a specific region or language, targeting of specific user groups, support for real-time applications, or commitment to a given desktop environment.
antiX – A light-weight edition based on Debian; Debian Live – Official live CD version of Debian; Devuan - A fork of the Debian Linux distribution that uses sysvinit, runit or OpenRC instead of systemd. Finnix – A small system administration live CD, based on Debian testing, and available for x86 and PowerPC architectures
GNOME and KDE were usually seen as dominant solutions, and these are still often installed by default on Linux systems. Each of them offers: To programmers, a set of standard APIs, a programming environment, and human interface guidelines. To translators, a collaboration infrastructure. KDE and GNOME are available in many languages. [5] [6]