Best Everyday User Products

Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.

Key KDE Plasma Desktop features:

Customizability Performance Feature-Rich Active Community

An easy and elegant way to use your computer, GNOME is designed to put you in control and get things done.

Key GNOME features:

User-Friendly Interface Accessibility Features Extensible Through Extensions Active Development Community

Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of...

Key Enlightenment features:

Lightweight Highly Customizable Efficient Aesthetic Design

A fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS. Pay what you want or download for free.

Key elementary OS features:

User-Friendly Interface Security and Privacy Minimalism and Efficiency Custom AppCenter

Open Source

Wayland compositor with 3d effects.

Key Wayfire features:

Customizability Modern Compositor Dynamic Effects Lightweight

Mir compositor with Wayland apps support.

icewm home page . Bug Tracking. If you have a patch, a bug report or a feature request to submit, please do so at the icewm project page at SourceForge.

Key IceWM features:

Lightweight Customizable Simple and Intuitive Stable and Reliable

A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

Key i3 features:

Efficient Window Management Lightweight Customizability Keyboard-Centric

Open Source

Console Display Manager. Contribute to evertiro/cdm development by creating an account on GitHub.

Key CDM features:

Customizability Lightweight Console-Based Simplicity

Game engine and multimedia framework and display server.

Key Arcan features:

Open Source Versatility Security Focus Performance

Open Source

UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions.

a login-manager-like desktop session selector written in bash (original source tree, now forked by dopsi https://github.com/dopsi/console-tdm) - mytbk/console-tdm.

Key Console TDM features:

Simplicity Open Source Cross-platform Compatibility Lightweight

dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.

Key dwm features:

Lightweight Customizable Simplicity Tiling Window Management