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The desktop environment in Alpine has no official desktops. Older versions had Xfce4, but now, all GUI and graphical interfaces are community contributed. Environments such as LXDE, Mate, etc are available, but are not fully supported due to some bloated integration.

Please, if you find something hard to understand about the integration of the variety of programs, consider further reading until the end of this page to understand important notes about the Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux

So you can choose from those options or follow the next suggested Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox page.

Alpine Desktops: Complete Desktops

Alpine is not a graphics-focused system, so there are only two complete desktops available: XFCE Desktop Environment and LXDE Desktop, utilizing Openbox Window Manager.

Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions

There are some contributions that will periodically be complete desktops available using the Community Repository Packages, like the MATE Desktop environment; others need Wayland, causing some compatibility problems:

Alpine Desktops: Upstream and external ones

All of the original upstream desktops can be installed using the traditional Unix-like method of downloading and compiling them:

Alpine Desktops: Multimedia

After getting your preferred desktop, you can also improve your desktop with:

Alpine multimedia for users (Audio and video multimedia related software and setup)
Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs (Amateur related such editing and converting tools)

Alpine Desktops: emulation and gaming

Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:

Tutorial series

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-The desktop environment in Alpine have two main flavors: '''official desktop for alpine as Xfce4''' and '''community contributed desktops as Mate, LXDE''' also have more options such as special case the very bloated [[Gnome Setup|Gnome]] (that currently recent version uses [[Wayland]]).
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-The popularity of desktop computers and laptops has been increasing BUT that's a only false behavior.. there's two factors that indicates that:
+The desktop environment '''in Alpine has no official desktops. Older versions had Xfce4, but now, all GUI and graphical interfaces are community contributed'''. Environments such as LXDE, Mate, etc are available, but are not fully supported due to some bloated integration.
-# Because Linux desktop distributions are not usually distributed by retail sale, there are no sales numbers that indicate the number of users. Desktop computers and phones are ruled by M$ and Google so far.
-# The main effors are focused in server and many desktops have programs that never find a end in development like Kppp or Firefox OS, or GTKpod; those are projects that works only with deprecated not used in time devices or machines.
-Taking in consideration that the North American-based web-measurement methods produce high Win-like desktop OS numbers and ignore the widespread use of Linux in other parts of the world, no single official Linux desktop exists and all the integration are focused in too many RedHat proposed practices (that ends in M$-like things like <nowiki>systemd</nowiki>.
+Please, if you find something hard to understand about the integration of the variety of programs, consider further reading until the end of this page to understand important notes about the [[Alpine_newbie_desktops#Behavior_of_Desktop_Environments_in_Linux|Behavior of Desktop Environments in Linux]]
-==== Why all of this explanation? ====
+'''So you can choose from those options or follow the next suggested [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Alpine Newbies: Xorg and Openbox]]''' page.
-You as user will find some very '''significant differences when integrated some desktops or try to install many desktops programs from source upstream''', a very important thing to take in consideration. But '''"Ah ok, but why that? why not a automatic default etc etc..?"''' well [[Alpine newbie#Feature_Differences|as explained in first section of this page]] the focus of the system are efficiency, performance and maximum control of the system, not an automatic behavior not well knowed.
+= Alpine Desktops: Complete Desktops =
-As pointed in first paragraph, Gnome it's a example of this.. it's used the <nowiki>wayland</nowiki> service and widely integrated with <nowiki>systemd</nowiki>, and Alpine does not use <nowiki>systemd</nowiki>. That it's a example why Desktop environment are so difficult to adopt in Linux world and obviously to configured in Alpine systems.
+Alpine is not a graphics-focused system, so there are only two complete desktops available: [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment|XFCE Desktop Environment]] and [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment|LXDE Desktop]], utilizing [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Openbox Window Manager]].
-'''So you can choose from those options:'''
-= Alpine Desktops: Official Desktop =
-There's two official supported desktops, [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment|XFCE Desktop Environment]] and [[Alpine Newbies LXDE Desktop Environment|LXDE Desktop]], that last make also optional the [[Alpine Newbies Openbox Window Manager|Openbox Window Manager]].
 # [[Alpine Newbies XFCE Desktop Environment]]
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 = Alpine Desktops: Community Contributions =
-There's some contributions desktop available using the Community Repository Packages like the [Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment|MATE Desktop environment]] due some others need Wayland that has some compatibility problems:
+There are some contributions that will periodically be complete desktops available using the Community Repository Packages, like the [[Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment|MATE Desktop environment]]; others need Wayland, causing some compatibility problems:
 # [[Alpine Newbies MATE Desktop Environment]]
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 = Alpine Desktops: Upstream and external ones =
-All of the original upstream desktop can be installed by the traditional Unix-like method by downloading and compiling it:
+All of the original upstream desktops can be installed using the traditional Unix-like method of downloading and compiling them:
 # [[Dwm|Dynamic Window Manager for X]]
 # [[Alpine LXQT Desktop Environment]]
-= Alpine Desktops: multimedia =
+= Alpine Desktops: Multimedia =
+After getting your preferred desktop, you can also improve your desktop with:
+* [[Alpine multimedia for users]] (Audio and video multimedia related software and setup)
+* [[Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs]] (Amateur related such editing and converting tools)
-* [[Alpine multimedia for users]]
+= Alpine Desktops: emulation and gaming =
-* [[Alpine multimedia for editing and amateurs]]
-= Alpine Desktops: emulation and gamming =
+Alpine is capable of providing a good platform to play games and enjoy:
 * [[Alpine games packages and options]]
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 = See Also =
-# [[Alpine newbie]]
+* [[Fonts|Fonts configuration and settings in alpine]]
-# [[Alpine newbie install manual]]
+* [[Alpine newbie]]
-# [[Alpine newbie apk packages]]
+* [[Alpine newbie install manual]]
-# [[Alpine newbie desktops]]
+* [[Alpine newbie apk packages]]
-# [[Alpine newbie developer]]
+* [[Alpine newbie developer]]
-# [[Alpine newbie lammers]]
+* [[Alpine newbie lammers]]
 [[Category:Desktop]]
 [[Category:Multimedia]]
+[[Category:Newbie]]