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The Difference Between Gnome And Windows Operating System

The difference between GNOME and Windows operating system.

GNOME:

1. Linux is based on a long history of well fleshed-out multi-user design.
Linux does not have a history of being a single-user system. Therefore it has been designed from the ground-up to isolate users from applications, files and directories that affect the entire operating system. Each user is given a user directory where all of the user's data files and configuration files are stored. When a user runs an application, such as a word processor, that word processor runs with the restricted privileges of the user. It can only write to the user's own home directory. It cannot write to a system file or even to another user's directory unless the administrator explicitly gives the user permission to do so.
Even more important, Linux provides almost all capabilities, such as the rendering of JPEG images, as modular libraries. As a result, when a word processor renders JPEG images, the JPEG rendering functions will......


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