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Xfce

Xfce: Developed by a worldwide community, it is a more modest and simpler desktop environment. It is designed to be lightweight, so it is perfect for older or low power computers (or to leave more room for your apps). It is also customizable (not as much as Plasma, but much more than GNOME).

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu: It is developed by the company Canonical with some community support. It is based on Debian, another famous linux distro. It began as "linux for human beings" as stated by their old motto, but nowdays they are more focused in server and professional stuff. It is a quite user-friendly distro and very popular out there, but it has it's downsides and some parts of the community don't like it for several reasons. By default it uses the GNOME user interface (with some modifications like having the taskbar to the left). If you don't like GNOME, there are Ubuntu flavours that offer Ubuntu with other user interfaces Like KDE Plasma with Kubuntu, or MATE with Ubuntu Mate. Ubuntu pushes a new version every six months (April and October), with names having the year, a dot, and the number of the month (04 for april and 10 for october), with 9 months of support each, except with the April release of every even year (20.04, 22.04, and so on), which is the Long Term Support (LTS) release with 5 years of support. Their versions are named with an animal and an adjective that being with the same name, progressing the alphabet as they go (Bionic Beaver, Cosmic Cuttlefish, Disco Dingo, etc).

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MX Linux

MX: Developed by the MX community and the AntiX community, it based in debian, and it aims to be a system with an elegant desktop, simple configuration, stability and medium size. It comes with either KDE Plasma, Xfce or Fluxbox (another desktop environment), and it has a new version every time debian pushes a new major version, with some point releases here and there.

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Atril

MATE: Developed by a worldwide community, MATE (pronounce it as mah-te) emerged when GNOME 3 came out. It introduced the look and feel it now has, but at the cost of throwing away what it was, so part of the community went and decided to take GNOME 2 and continue developing and maintaining it, but keeping alive the spirit of what GNOME 2 used to be. It is quite lightweight and simple (much like XCFE), but with another vibe.

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KDE Plasma Desktop

Plasma: developed by KDE, an international community of developers. It is the opposite of GNOME, because it has a metric ton of options, tweaks and settings so you can practically make the UI you want. At first glance it looks like the windows UI, but as I said, you can pretty much move and tweak everything you see.

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Fedora

Fedora: Developed by a community with some support of the Red Hat company is a distro that likes to be at the vanguard and adapt new technologies before any other project. It comes with GNOME by default, but there is the Fedora Spins project that includes other desktops. The experience is quite polished and altough the installer is a bit cumbersome, it is quite a neat option. Red Hat provides help in infrastructure and legal advice in exchange of using Fedora as the basis for their commercial distro Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL for short). They release a version every six months (roughly april and october), wich each having 13 months of support.

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Arch Linux

Arch: Developed by a community, Arch is a distro meant for advanced users. The installation is quite technical and involves knowing how to deal with the command line and to install everything you need as almost nothing is installed by default, but that is because Arch is sort of a blank canvas in which you can build your own system, only with the programs you need. Arch does not follow a release cycle, but instead follows the "rolling release" model, in which updates for the individual programs are pushed constantly. That makes arch one of the most bleeding edge distros, pushing updates with the latest versions of programs (at the risk of being the first to face an undiscovered bug, but because Arch is meant for advanced users, they are expected to at least report the issue).

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