What's the Difference GNOME, UNITY and MATE?

Apr 02, 2016, 18:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Matt Hartley)

MATE and GNOME are considered desktop environments. Unity and this is where it gets confusing -is a graphical shell running on top of GNOME Shell. Confused yet? Okay, bear with me as I break this down.