Installing new desktop environments in Linux

We will continue to use Fedora as an example, but the commands shown here can also be used for any RHEL-based distribution, such as AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux.

By default, Fedora Workstation uses GNOME as the desktop environment, but what if you would like to use another one, such as KDE? Before showing you how, we would like to give you some information about the graphical desktop environments available for Linux.

Linux is all about choice, and this can’t be more true when it comes to desktop environments (DEs). There are dozens of DEs available, such as GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, LXQT, Pantheon, and others. The most widely used DEs on Linux are GNOME, KDE, and Xfce, and the first two have the largest communities. If you want to use the very best and latest of GNOME, for example, you can try distributions such as Fedora, openSUSE Tumbleweed with GNOME, or Arch Linux (or Manjaro). If you want to use the best of KDE, you can try KDE...