4-decade long MS command line and Windows user learning Ubuntu. Please ELI actually 5: GNOME. I’m yet to find a Linux person who explain it simply.

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Terminal and all that other shit, I follow you. Command lines. Fine. I don’t know what the Linux terms mean, but I understand command lines etc… But GNOME… what the fuck is it? Is it a suite? an environment? Every Linux user explains things like I’ve already been a user for a few years and all of them have forgotten what being NEW actually is.

Ironically, the WORST place to find Linux environments explained simply and clearly from the bottom up: The Internet.

This is where I remind and beg: Like. I’m. FIVE.

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GNOME is a desktop environment. On Windows people have a single desktop environment with a few things they can configure, while on Linux they have many like GNOME, KDE, Xfce …

With KDE you can configure something that would be very close to the Windows desktop with lots of menus, while with GNOME the approach is different, the desktop is only secondary and in the basic GNOME configuration it’s pretty empty, the windows have a minimal set of buttons, etc. Other environments have their uses too, for example Xfce is lightweight and might be more suitable for older computers.

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