What are KDE and GNOME?

KDE
-KDE is a desktop environment that allows carrying out daily tasks without relying on the Command Line
Interface. Two common products of KDE are Plasma Desktop and KDE frameworks. They are designed
to run on Microsoft Windows, Android, Unix Desktops, etc. It provides tools and documents for the
developers to write applications.

-KDE is well-known for its plasma Desktop environment, which serves as the default working
environment for a number of Linux distributions, including open SUSE, Mageia, and Kubuntu, as
well as the default desktop environment on the BSD operating system PC-BSD. The primary goal
of the KDE community is to make daily use of the desktop and its apps easier. Additionally, it
offers developers and programmers the tools and documentation they need to create
standalone apps for a system. The Qt framework provides the foundation for KDE software. The
KDE projects are carried out using the KDE technologies, and there are numerous small and
major projects of this nature. To execute the KDE applications, a variety of libraries and services
are available.

KDE is a platform, which is mainly coded in C++ and includes the mature bindings for other
programming languages such as the:

 Python
 Ruby (Korundum, built on top of QtRuby)
 C#
 Perl

Features of the latest version of KDE (KDE Plasma 5.25)

 Having a modern taskbar program (with support for previewing multiple windows
simultaneously).
 Benefiting from the updated Shell wallpaper
 Improvement of Wayland technology (Screencasting and Klipper support)
 Providing warning for the failure of SSD device disks
 Having a network layout like
 Dolphin file manager support from the touchscreen
 Easy to use Okular Document viewer
 Ability to adjust the percentage of screen brightness
  Having KRunner (Multitasking enhancement launcher)
 Having KDE Connect
 Lightweight and user-friendly

GNOME
-GNOME is a free and open source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives. It is
the default desktop environments on many Linux distributions such as Fedora, Debian, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Solaris and Kali Linux.

-In August 1997, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena founded GNOME as a free software
initiative to create a desktop environment and applications. It was started with the KDE
environment in mind. The abbreviation GNU Network Object Model Environment is the source
of the moniker GNOME. The phrase initially referred to the development of a distributed object
system similar to Microsoft's OLE.

-GNOME is basically a desktop environment and graphical user interface project. It is fully
composed of free and open source software components that have been created by Red Hat's
largest corporate contributors as well as by professional and amateur developers. It is an
international effort that involves choosing desktop application software and developing
software development frameworks. It operates on the programs that control the opening of
windows, the handling of files, and task management.

The GNOME project puts heavy emphasis on simplicity, usability, and making things “just
work”. The other aims of the project are:

 Freedom
 Internationalization and localization
 Developer-friendliness
 Organization
 Support

Features of the latest version of GNOME

 The text editor has an auto-save function.

 The video player benefits from advanced OpenGL controls.
 Memory consumption has been reduced regarding RAM requirement, and boot time
has been improved and accelerated.
 Improved screenshot performance
  GNOME Wallpapers has a dark UI theme.
 The GNOME user interface has been updated to a more modern design and has
advanced features for GNOME applications.
 It has two new programs, a text editor and an auto-save console for the text editor.
 Supports RDP (Remote Desktop Features).
 Reduced response time and greater precision in user input lead to improved
performance in games and other graphics-intensive applications in the GNOME browser.

Differences between KDE and GNONE

-The difference between GNOME and KDE is that the GNOME is a desktop environment that
provides simplicity, accessibility, and ease of internationalization and localization while KDE is a
desktop environment that provides basic functions and applications to perform daily tasks.

-GNOME is generally regarded as streamlined and less resource-intensive than KDE.

Interestingly, while GNOME’s minimum system requirements are less demanding as far as CPU
speed is concerned (700 Mhz, vs KDE’s 1 Ghz requirement), KDE actually requires less minimum
RAM (615 MB vs GNOME’s 768 MB).

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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