An easy and elegant way to use your computer, GNOME is designed to help you have the best possible computing experience.
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KDE Plasma Alternatives for Linux
There are many alternatives to KDE Plasma for Linux if you are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is GNOME, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to KDE Plasma and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to KDE Plasma are Xfce, Cinnamon, Noctalia and MATE.
Alternatives list
- 31 GNOME alternatives
29 Xfce alternativesXfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be fast and lightweight, while still being visually appealing and easy to use.
39 Noctalia alternativesNoctalia is a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland built with Quickshell. It’s designed with a “quiet by design” philosophy, providing a complete desktop experience that stays out of your way.
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24 MATE alternativesMany users of GNOME 2 dislike GNOME 3. MATE is a fork of the good old GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
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The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.
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The Budgie Desktop is a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user. It consists of a number of components to provide a more complete desktop experience.
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Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Linux
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32 Compiz alternativesCompiz is a compositing manager adding fancy effects to your windows, from drop shadows to awesome desktop effects like the Desktop Cube or the Expo view.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
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Very beautiful DE, modern and stable.
I prefer KDE for its simple, Windows-like look, as I dont like looking downward all the time and like the customizability of it, but GNOME is by far the best supported, stable and beautiful Linux DE.