Home News What’s the Difference GNOME, UNITY and MATE? By Matt Hartley April 3, 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. Complete Story Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Print Previous articleZenwalk 8.0 Beta 3 Arrives for Slackware Fans with LibreOffice 5.1.1, FFmpeg 3.0 Next articleManjaro Linux 16.06 “Daniella” Gets a Second Preview Release, Download Now Get the Free Newsletter! Subscribe to Developer Insider for top news, trends, & analysis Email Address By subscribing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Subscribe Must Read Blog Master VLC with These 10+ Expert Tips and Tricks News Xubuntu 24.04 LTS: Best New Features News Slimbook Fedora 2 Is a New Linux Laptop Powered by Fedora 40 News EndeavourOS Gemini Lands with the KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Environment Developer 5 Must-Try AI Tools for Linux Users in 2024