KDE and GNOME Users: Different Download Habits

"GNOMEfiles' lists are dominated by administrative utilities. Its monitoring applications include the Computer Temperature Monitor and GNOME Sensor Applet, both of which offer users readings that are unavailable from a standard GNOME install, and gnoMint, which manages certification authorities.

"All these apps clearly give functionality that default GNOME installations lack. The monitoring applications, perhaps, reflect the fact that dual-core machines are becoming the norm, causing a concern with overheating."

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