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Top 9 Desktop Environments in Open Source

The best Desktop Environments within the Open Source category - based on our collection of reviews & verified products.

Xfce KDE LXDE i3 KDE neon Deepin dwm Fluxbox

Summary

The top products on this list are Xfce, KDE, and LXDE. All products here are categorized as: Desktop Environments. We recommend LibHunt for [discovery and comparisons of open-source projects](https://www.libhunt.com/). One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
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    Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

    #Operating Systems #Linux #Linux Distribution 19 social mentions

  2. 2

    KDE

    The KDEยฎ Community is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and โ€ฆ

    #Operating Systems #Linux #Window Manager 80 social mentions

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    Why will you like it? Less resource needs. You can use it on your less-pricey embedded board or salvaged computer. Component-based design. Don't want something in LXDE, or you don't want to use LXDE but only part of it?

    #Operating Systems #Linux #Window Manager 1 social mentions

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    i3

    A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 90 social mentions

  5. KDE neon is the intersection of these needs using a stable Ubuntu long-term release as its core, packaging the hottest software fresh from the KDE Community ovens.

    #Open Source #Operating Systems #Linux 70 social mentions

  6. Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.

    #Linux #Utilities #Window Manager

  7. 7
    deepin is a Linux distribution devoted to providing beautiful, easy to use, safe and reliable system for global users. deepin 15. 5 mainly added HiDPI, fingerprint scanning and Flatpak appli.

    #Open Source #Operating Systems #Linux

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    dwm

    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.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 67 social mentions

  9. Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

    #Open Source #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions

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