This chapter is dedicated to GNOME, another favorite graphical user interface. Although its features resemble many of those in KDE, the user interface is a bit different to what you might be accustomed to. Both GNOME and KDE provide roughly equivalent functionalities (even though each one of them have their own die-hard fans who would argue otherwise). Moreover, you can use GNOME applications in KDE and vice versa. Let's start looking at the desktop.