Best Desktop Environment Software & Apps (2025)

Best Desktop Environment Apps and Services

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Budgie

Open Source

Budgie is a feature-rich, luxurious desktop using the most modern technologies.

KDE neon

Open Source

KDE neon is a rapidly updated software repository.

Lumina Desktop Environment

Open Source

Lumina Desktop Environment is a lightweight, customizable, and seamless desktop experience.

Solus

Open Source

Solus is an operating system that is designed for home computing.

Deepin

Open Source

Deepin Screenshot is an elegant screenshot application.

Enlightenment

Open Source

Enlightenment is a window manager and app ecosystem platform.

LXQt

Open Source

LXQt is a bundle of software packages under development, with the aim of providing a complete desktop environment.

Ubuntu MATE

Open Source

Ubuntu MATE is a free and open-source Linux distribution and an official derivative of Ubuntu.

Unity

Open Source

Unity is the game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles.

TrueOS

Open Source

TrueOS (PC-BSD or PCBSD), is a Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT.

Manjaro Linux or simply Manjaro, is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. Manjaro Linux is based on the rolling release update model similar to that of Arch Linux and uses Pacman as its package manager.

MATE

Open Source

MATE is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2.

LXDE

Open Source

LXDE (abbreviation for Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment with comparatively low resource requirements.

Cinnamon

Open Source

Cinnamon is a desktop environment based on the GNOME 3.

Kubuntu

Open Source

Kubuntu is an official flavour of the Ubuntu operating system which uses the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the Unity graphical environment.

KDE

Open Source

KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.

openSUSE

Open Source

openSUSE formerly SUSE Linux and SuSE Linux Professional, is a Linux-based project and distribution sponsored by SUSE Linux GmbH and other companies.

Xfce

Open Source

Xfce is a free and open-source desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems.

GNOME

Open Source

GNOME is a desktop environment composed of free and open-source software that runs on Linux and most BSD derivatives.

Jolicloud 2

Commercial

Jolicloud is a cloud computing with the Jolibook, the first personal cloud computer.

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