Linux User Interfaces
Having a world-class operating system that can manage your computer hardware and software is great, but you need some way to communicate with it. With the popularity of Microsoft Windows, desktop computer users expect some type of graphical display to interact with their system. This spurred more development in the OSS community, and the Linux graphical desktops emerged.
Linux is famous for being able to do things in more than one way, and no place is this more relevant than in graphical desktops. There are a plethora of graphical desktops you can choose from in Linux. The following sections describe a few of the more popular ones.
The X Window System
Two basic elements control your video environment—the video card in ...
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