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A DE is a desktop environment and includes niceties like text editors, settings applications, music playered, and things that make an ecosystem. Gnome and KDE a
by cipherboy 7y ago
A DE is a desktop environment and includes niceties like text editors, settings applications, music playered, and things that make an ecosystem. Gnome and KDE are the two most popular DEs. WM is a window manager and just handles well, window management. Sometimes that included decoration and styling, usually it includes moving and closing and minimizing them. Think, Mutter, Sway, or fvwm. A WM is a subset of a DE.