The first time I touched Linux, and if nothing in my memory fails, I did it on an Ubuntu 6.06 virtual machine. I didn't quite like the image of that operating system, I told my mentor and he told me that it was GNOME, that there were more graphical environments like what was then known as KDE. Today we have GNOME, Xfce, Plasma, Budgie, Pantheon, Deepin... Do you need any more? I don't know, but it seems that there is always room for one more and today we bring you a new one called Jade.
"Jade" are the initials of "Just Another Desktop Environment", so from the beginning its creators already know that there are many options on the market and that this is "one more". At the moment it is in the early stages of its development and we can only use it on Manjaro Linux, but it is assumed that it can be ported to other distributions because it uses technologies such as Webkit2, Gtk, HTML, CSS, Javascript and Python. Its main difference from other graphical environments is that most of what Jade uses is web technology.
Jade is available in Manjaro WebDad Community Edition
Jade is developed by Vitor Lopes and, as we read in his GitHub website, recommends that we test it in a virtual machine as it is in the early stages of development. From what I have tested, it is a graphic environment ... different: I like it, but it's hard to get used to it. Something that has caught my attention (I know that it is not exclusive to this environment) is that before starting the operating system it allows us to choose the interface language, the keyboard language and the time zone, which ensures that we will not have any localization problem from the beginning.
But, as Lopes warns, we are facing a graphical environment that still in alpha phase, so that, together with if we use it in a virtual machine, will make it not work as smoothly as we would like. All I can say is that Jade points out ways. I leave you with the video of Manjaro WebDad Alpha 7.3.