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What’s the Difference GNOME, UNITY and MATE?

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Matt Hartley
Apr 2, 2016

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.
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