Desktop decisions

Cinnamon and MATE adhere in their own ways to more traditional ideas about how a desktop should be. Some people have other ideas; some of those involve doing everything from the command line, some of them (like the i3 window manager) rely heavily on remembering a few dozen finger-stretching keyboard shortcuts, and some of them involve Gnome 3. It’s a fairly radical departure from traditional desktops, but we’ve adapted to it quite nicely over the years.

FIREWALL WITH ME “We’ve tended to shy away from recommending desktop users to use a firewall, partly because most desktop users aren’t running any services.”

Desktop Ubuntu 18.04 uses Gnome 3, having abandoned Unity a few years back, and includes its own