For example, the panel at the top, or the bottom, or both. Yes, there are differences, but they are trivial and cosmetic. So many different implementations of the "traditional" (since 1995) taskbar-and-launch-menu are not different desktops. What it is asking is: why are they all the same? I have my own preferences, but I completely respect that other people have their own. I am also not saying that any of these environments are bad.
People have their own preferences in tooling, and that is fine. Some use Gtk, in various versions a few use Qt some use both and a few, such as Enlightenment or EDE, use something entirely different. Some are written in C++, some in JavaScript, some in Vala, most in plain old C. One might ask why there are so many, and there are many answers to that. A handful of them can be adapted from one to the other. That's 21 different desktop environments, with a grand total of two different basic designs. The Linux version of Firefox running on a Chromebook Over in the FreeBSD world, there is the Lumina desktop. The Equinox desktop hasn't had a new release since 2014, but Arch Linux still includes it. The release of Enlightenment 17 took 12 years, and some admirers are reluctant to move on to newer ones – so for instance, one of the only Enlightenment-centric distros, Bodhi Linux, responded to subsequent releases of Enlightenment by forking E17 to make the Moksha Desktop.
Other desktops are even more niche: Enlightenment is an option in several distros. Taskbar-like panel, tray, hierarchical menus… it doesn't do anything one couldn't achieve with modest customization of Xfce or MATE or LXDE. There's nothing wrong with Budgie, but it is another variation on the same theme. Another Sinocentric distro, Ubuntu Kylin, has UKUI, forked from MATE with added bling.
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Interestingly, Zorin OS Lite looks and works much the same – just compare their screenshots – but uses Xfce plus the Dock-like Taskbar plugin.ĭeepin (and UbuntuDDE) are pretty, but the option of a floating taskbar doesn't disguise that it's still a Windows-like desktop. Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu, but heavily customizes GNOME to make it more Windows-like.
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