Chapter 1
The GNOME Desktop
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting the GNOME desktop history
Examining the desktop
Looking at the activities overview
Customizing your desktop
Some people like to characterize Linux as being an operating system built by nerds, exclusively for nerds. This idea instills visions of having to type cryptic commands to get anything done on your computer. However, that can’t be further from the truth! Linux supports several graphical desktop environments that provide some of the most user-friendly interfaces available for desktop computers.
What can be a bit confusing, though, is that, unlike Windows and macOS, there’s no one standard Linux graphical desktop. Linux is full of choices, and nowhere is that more evident than in the graphical desktop world. In this chapter and the next two chapters, I cover the most common Linux graphical desktop environments used by the popular Linux distributions. This chapter starts out the discussion by examining the GNOME desktop.
Looking at the History of GNOME
The GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) desktop is (as you may ...
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