[Wylug-discuss] what is the difference?

[John Leach]

Hi Scott,

this goes into more detail than I could and seems fair:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_Window_System_desktop_environments

hope it's useful,

John.

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:41 +0100, Scott Hodgson wrote:
> I am a little perplexed as to the difference between the 3 main desktop 
> interface's
> 
> What is the difference between KDE GNOME and XFCE, I thought it was the 
> display - as in xfce was like a mac, kde all at bottom of screen and 
> gnome at the top - but having looked at ubuntu, kubuntu and xubuntu they 
> all have the same layout.  could someone put me straight.  all the 
> websites I have seen is that it is the look and feel of it, but also 
> they say xfce is more performance based but they all look alike on the 
> 'buntu group.
> 
> scotty

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