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[–] Beartotem 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DE is for "Desktop environment". Most distro let you choose from quite a few. The two best known one are Gnome and KDE, i believe. But there are many more.

"Desktop environment" might just be two words without much meaning to you. If that the case, in the linux context, a desktop environment is basically the GUI to your computer: file explorer, desktop, taskbar, general setting manager and so on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for clearing that up.