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The default desktop experience

For many, the desktop sums up the personality of a distribution. Some of these desktop environments were once only considered suitable for high-end computers, but the Pi hardware has caught up, and none of them are too taxing for a 1.8GHz, four-core Pi 400. That said, there were some minor variations in overall responsiveness from one desktop environment to another, and we’ve noted such occurrences where appropriate.

Hopefully, the Super key is assigned to a useful function such as the launcher. That enables application searching and launching

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