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-A Desktop Environment is hard to define without referring to itself. Something that provides a unified look and feel (as a WindowManager would) but on top of that, a desktop environment set of tools for managing logins/sessions/applications and perhaps even a toolkit for creating other applications. MicrosoftWindows' desktop environment is Explorer.
+A Desktop Environment is hard to define without referring to itself. Something that provides a unified look and feel (as a WindowManager would) but on top of that, a desktop environment provides
set of tools for managing logins/sessions/applications and perhaps even a toolkit for creating other applications. MicrosoftWindows' desktop environment is Explorer.
For Linux, there are two obvious contenders in this field:
* the K Desktop Environment, [KDE].