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GNOME @ Linux Guide:

  • Developer: Gnome Project (Owned by the GNOME Foundation)
  • State: In active Development
  • Languages: C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, HTML and more.

GNOME is a desktop environment designed to be simple, beautiful, and elegant. It is the main desktop environment of Fedora and Ubuntu and others. It is a very popular desktop environment within Linux/BSD. With many Distros opting using GNOME because of how widespread popular it is throughout the Linux World. GNOME began development in 1997 by Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena, with GNOME 1, the first major release of GNOME, being released in 1999. Website

GTK

GTK (formerly the GIMP Toolkit) is a widget toolkit that was created for GIMP (GIMP is a graphics editor like Photoshop but open-source and linux friendly), but is known as the widget toolkit for GNOME. GTK is one of the most commonly used GUI frameworks, alongside the Qt framework, Cocoa for macOS and Windows Forms for Windows alongside others. It is used in apps like GIMP, OBS and others.