A Window inside the Linux Desktop
“ What’ s the difference between a Windows and a Linux?”
That’ s the first question many people may ask while considering the Linux for their desktop. To answer the question, the interface is the difference to a degree where the user can choose a desktop environment of a window manager.
Technically, the desktop environment is the term for typical, full-featured desktop that displays the programs and other features such as app launchers, menu panels and widgets. In Linux, the design is different than Windows basics like app menu, notification bar to window framing programs.
In the i3 window manager, the user can launch a terminal by hitting the window key and enter. The i3 is a tiling window manager that all the windows expand evenly to fit the screen. When a new window pops up, it reduces the existing windows size.
The desktop environment has its pros like rich features, interface, out of box style and a score of codecs and also system notifications. For Linux, XFCE is a good desktop environment that is a much leaner and has much lesser clutter. By downloading the Qt themes, the XFCE has the best desktop environment ever. Perhaps the most noticeable distinction from desktop environments is that window managers generally focus on efficiency by emphasizing mouse movements and keyboard hotkeys to open programs or launchers.
Some of its cons include, it’ s out of box skeleton and the user has to spend time to read the manager’ s documentation for configuration syntax and actually getting the hand of the said syntaxes.
While window managers aren’ t designed for everyone, they offer a distinct experience and Linux is one of the few OS that allows them to work flawlessly.
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