Desktop environments

Fedora’s default desktop environment is GNOME, but it provides us with the alternative of using other desktop environments, either lightweight ones or those with special features, such as those that use different graphic engines and specialized libraries or are focused on performance. These alternatives are offered by the Fedora Project as Spin distributions. You can download a Spin with a preconfigured desktop environment based on Fedora:

Note

For more information about alternative desktops for Fedora, refer to Fedora Spins at https://spins.fedoraproject.org/.

With this, we have come to the end of Chapter 1. Let’s quickly recap what we learned.