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Installing a desktop environment

Installing a desktop environment - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Building an Ubuntu Server

Installing a desktop environment

- [Narrator] As we've seen so far, Ubuntu Server doesn't come with a desktop environment pre-installed. And that's mostly to save space and reduce complexity because most servers run without a desktop. Many servers of all sorts run headless, meaning they run without a display attached and are used remotely across the network through web services, Secure Shell, or through other networks services like file sharing. Sometimes though it can be useful to have a desktop environment running on the server, in case it needs to be used directly or in case it needs to perform tasks that are only possible or are significantly easier to do when using a graphical environment. There's a huge number of desktop environments available for Linux, and any of them can be installed on Ubuntu Server. Well, Ubuntu Server isn't tied to a particular desktop environment. One of the most commonly used desktop environments on Ubuntu is GNOME,…

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