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Having a world‐class operating system that can manage your computer hardware and software is great, but you also need some way to communicate with it. Back in the old days of computers, you communicated with the mainframe computer by punching holes into cards, feeding them into a card reader, and then waiting for the output to appear on a printer. Fortunately, those days are long gone.

Thanks to the Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows operating systems, these days most desktop computer users expect some type of graphical display to interact with their system. Linux doesn't disappoint, offering a plethora of graphical desktops you can choose from. The following sections describe a few of the more popular ones.