KDE Plasma is described as 'Plasma is a cross-device work environment by the KDE Community where trust is put on the user's capacity to best define their own workflow and preferences' and is a leading desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to KDE Plasma for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Wayland apps. The best KDE Plasma alternative is GNOME, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like KDE Plasma are Xfce, Cinnamon, Noctalia and LXQt.
An easy and elegant way to use your computer, GNOME is designed to help you have the best possible computing experience.
Can't be easily themed anymore, and possibly can't be themed at all in the future. If you don't like the dark adwaita theme because it looks like an ashtray and a graveyard combined, bad luck for you.
The are both pritty good!
Xfce (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.
Xfce is good because it's fast lightweight and has almost all of the features of Plasma
is your pc shit? do you like light mode? well then xcfe is for you
It's better to give to a grandma/a kid to make sure she/he doesn't delete her/his taskbar, but it is still customizable and overall a great choice for productivity (like GNOME)
if you used to use mint KDE than cinnamon will work just fine for you but for non debian distros use gnome
Noctalia 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.
LXQt is in two words "Lightweight Plasma"
The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.
LXDE Is old and lacking in features
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.
Budgie is modern, good for productivity, though it is not as customizable as Plasma
Budgie is a new desktop environment built on top of Gnome, essentially. It looks and feels nice in principle, but it's not the finished article. Slow and buggy, it might have a bright future but for the moment KDE's Plasma is much better.
Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system.
Compiz 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.
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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.