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In this video, you'll learn about desktop environments.

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While Wayland takes care of displaying the graphical user interface, the graphical desktop

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itself is used for draw screens on top of the compositor.

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And different graphical desktops exist, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

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When you install a Linux distribution, some distributions offer a choice in graphical

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desktop, and many don't, because it's easier to standardize on just one graphical desktop

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because it's such a rich environment.

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And currently, most graphical desktops are in fact a desktop environment, where the window

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manager is taking care of drawing the screens, but many tools and applications are included

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as well.

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There are many desktop environments.

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The most common one is GNOME.

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It has become kind of an industry standard as Red Hat family is using it, as well as

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Ubuntu.

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KDE is the alternative.

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It originates from SUSE Linux, and it's very easy to customize and contains many base applications.

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There's also Mate, which is a desktop that is based on GNOME 2, and it was created by

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developers who weren't happy with the new GNOME 3 directions when it was introduced.

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And Unity is the default desktop on Ubuntu, which is based on GNOME.

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And finally, there is Cinnamon, which is based on GNOME and offers an interface that is similar

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to Windows.

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It's default on Linux Mint, which is a distribution that tries to be very Windows compatible.