From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Desktops and Remote Access (2016)
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Summary of Linux GUI choices - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux CentOS 7: Desktops and Remote Access (2016)
Summary of Linux GUI choices
- [Voiceover] As we've seen in this chapter, there are many choices for Linux desktop environments in CentOS 7. Choosing one may be a daunting task, so I'd like to summarize the choices as each have their strengths and weaknesses. If you want a desktop that is fully supported by Red Hat and CentOS, you only have two choices, GNOME 3 and KDE. GNOME 3 has an easier to understand, but less configurable, interface. It is reasonably fast and very stable. I like the new workflow of GNOME 3, and prefer it now over the traditional Start menu way of doing things, and it uses about 20% less memory than KDE. However, as we will find out later in this course, it doesn't work well with some remote access protocols. KDE is also very fast and stable. It's extremely configurable and very powerful. KDE uses the most memory of any desktop, and many GTK applications don't look native when run on KDE, making them feel inconsistent at times. For the nonstandard desktop environments, you have MATE…
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