other GUIs

(ALAN) One of the nice characteristics of Linux is the extend to which a user can customize his installation. Different from other operating systems for personal machines, Linux has many window manager software. We have presented KDE, the one that is currently most similar to Windows, and the one with more icons and menu options. There are however other options. The most popular alternative to KDE is Gnome. Gnome has a cleaner interface but still has the same working principles, with a main taskbar and pull up menus.Other options do not include a taskbar, just pop-up menus prompted by the mouse buttons. These include WindowMaker, IceVM,....