In this video, you'll learn about desktop environments.
While Wayland takes care of displaying the graphical user interface, the graphical desktop
itself is used for draw screens on top of the compositor.
And different graphical desktops exist, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.
When you install a Linux distribution, some distributions offer a choice in graphical
desktop, and many don't, because it's easier to standardize on just one graphical desktop
because it's such a rich environment.
And currently, most graphical desktops are in fact a desktop environment, where the window
manager is taking care of drawing the screens, but many tools and applications are included
as well.
There are many desktop environments.
The most common one is GNOME.
It has become kind of an industry standard as Red Hat family is using it, as well as
Ubuntu.
KDE is the alternative.
It originates from SUSE Linux, and it's very easy to customize and contains many base applications.
There's also Mate, which is a desktop that is based on GNOME 2, and it was created by
developers who weren't happy with the new GNOME 3 directions when it was introduced.
And Unity is the default desktop on Ubuntu, which is based on GNOME.
And finally, there is Cinnamon, which is based on GNOME and offers an interface that is similar
to Windows.
It's default on Linux Mint, which is a distribution that tries to be very Windows compatible.