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The GNOME desktop

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The GNOME desktop

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- [Instructor] The thing to understand about the GNOME desktop is that it's like similar desktops in Windows and MacOS. Just, it looks a little bit different. So what we have is windows. And all there really is is the stock desktop that comes with it. Same thing when you talk about OS X or the macOS. You've got a desktop that's built into the operating system and that's what you use. When it comes to Linux, you've got choices. You've got choices like KDE, GNOME, Xfce, MATE. These are all different desktops. They're all different ways of looking at the system. Controlling the underlying applications. But they all do the same thing. So SUSE has to provide an operating system distribution, which means all the programs that go along with it. And for that, it also means graphical front-ends for those programs. So SUSE does not want to work on other desktops. They want to focus and dedicate to the GNOME desktop so that they don't spend any resources on development and maintenance of the…

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