One of the cool things about Linux that also confuses a lot of people who are used to Windows is that it allows you to use different Desktop environments based on your choice. So if you like a minimalist setup or are on an old system with limited resources you can use something like IceWM or Fluxbox. Others like GNOME which is more like a Mac interface, I personally prefer KDE which is similar in layout to Windows and has a lot of good widgets and inbuilt functionality I like.<\/p>\n
I have been using KDE since I first started using Linux back in early 2000 but till today didn’t really think about what the acronym stood. While surfing the web I found the full form and found it funny. KDE Officially stands for: Kool Desktop Environment<\/i>. It was first announced on a Linux Mailing list way back on 14th Oct 1996: New Project: Kool Desktop Environment. Programmers wanted!<\/a><\/p>\n From that small beginning KDE is now one of the most popular Desktop Environments out there and is constantly being updated.<\/p>\n Thought I should share so that others also know…<\/p>\n – Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the cool things about Linux that also confuses a lot of people who are used to Windows is that it allows you to use different Desktop environments based on your choice. So if you like a minimalist setup or are on an old system with limited resources you can use something like IceWM […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-software","category-linuxunix-related","category-my-thoughts","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8106,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8102\/revisions\/8106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}