Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Alan Pope]

On 30 June 2011 14:43, ANDY <sirald66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I admit not fully understanding how things such as X, mutter, compiz, gnome,
> kde, unity stack as the environment/interface.  Could you briefly explain to
> a novice how these layer in?
>

Probably easier to just read the first paragraph of each of these:-

X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

Window Managers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutter_(window_manager)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacity

Desktop Environments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(desktop_environment)

Al.