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 +====== Desktop environment ======
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 A **desktop environment** is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment|complete ecosystem of software and resources]] providing a homogeneous graphical user experience. Generally based on specific [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget|graphical widgets]], configuration system, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_window|root window]] with desktop background, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskbar|taskbar]] with window list and menu, icons, window manager etc. It provides a coherent visual metaphor for a user to interact with the computer. A **desktop environment** is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_environment|complete ecosystem of software and resources]] providing a homogeneous graphical user experience. Generally based on specific [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_widget|graphical widgets]], configuration system, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_window|root window]] with desktop background, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskbar|taskbar]] with window list and menu, icons, window manager etc. It provides a coherent visual metaphor for a user to interact with the computer.
  
-A desktop environment can be a great convenience to many users, though a custom graphical environment can be assembled if preferred, i.e. Xorg could be used with a window manager and select desktop utilities. Gentoo's flexibility means that many desktop environments are available, and more than one can generally be installed in parallel. Gentoo can of course be used exclusively in text mode, as a server platform for example.+Desktop environments can be a great convenience to many users, though a custom graphical environment can be assembled if preferred, i.e. Xorg could be used with a window manager and select desktop utilities. Hyperbola's flexibility allows of course for the system to be used exclusively in text mode, as a server platform for example, if that is preferred. 
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 +Hyperbola at this moment does not have separate releases or "flavors" for different desktop environments, as some other distributions do - a desktop environment is simply installed on the base system.  
 +===== Available desktop environments ===== 
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 +  * [[en:system:userspace:desktop_enviroment:lumina_desktop|Lumina Desktop]] 
  
-Gentoo does not have separate releases or "flavors" for different desktop environments, as some other distributions do - a desktop environment is simply installed on the base system.