desktop-environment

Omarchy is a malleable Linux desktop OS designed for the age of AI agents, offering a keyboard-first workstation with integrated coding agents for easy setup and customization.

Kumander Linux es una distribución Linux diseñada para facilitar la transición desde Windows con una interfaz inspirada en Windows 7 y aplicaciones gratuitas preinstaladas.

Omacosy is an omarchy-style tiling desktop environment for macOS that provides features like Hyprland's dwindle layout, focus-follows-mouse, and unified theme switching, with a low memory footprint.

Starling is a new Linux desktop environment built almost entirely by AI over six months, capable of running native apps like Chrome, Slack, and Zoom via Wayland and X11 support.

System76 provides an update on the COSMIC desktop environment's first seven months, highlighting new features like frosted glass, consistent corners, workspace enhancements, and a new system monitor.

CachyOS June 2026 release brings a new Hyprland Noctalia desktop option, DNS-over-QUIC support, Python and GCC performance improvements, and various installer and hardware detection fixes.

Brian Tarricone announces the first preview release of xfwl4, Xfce's Wayland compositor, after six months of work, detailing known missing features and future plans.

KDE Plasma 6.7 has been released, introducing per-screen virtual desktops, a microphone volume test, press-and-hold special characters, light/dark mode toggle, Vietnamese lunar calendar, background apps in system tray, printing improvements, and various usability enhancements.

Mold-desktop is a desktop environment project written in Common Lisp, hosted on Codeberg with modules for apps, documentation, and examples.

KDE announces that Plasma 6.8 will drop X11 session support, fully transitioning to Wayland after 15 years of development. The change affects only Plasma desktop; XWayland support remains for legacy applications.

The NNN Stack combines NixOS, Niri compositor, and Noctalia shell to create a declarative, scrollable, and reproducible desktop environment, inviting users to contribute their dotfiles.

The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested over €1 million in KDE to support the development of its free and open-source software, aiming to strengthen digital sovereignty and security infrastructure.

This article explores the revival of the KDE Oxygen theme as part of a broader anti-minimalist backlash and nostalgia trend in software design, drawing parallels to architectural preferences.

This article introduces the open-source project niri, a new Wayland-based desktop compositor that avoids traditional window crowding issues through a scrollable tiling layout, and supports features such as dynamic workspaces, independent multi-monitor management, and custom shader animations.

KDE Plasma 6.7 introduces per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, and numerous UI improvements following the annual KDE mega-sprint in Graz, including calendar app configuration, Alt+Tab positioning options, and app action favorites.

The xdg-user-dirs 0.20 release enables the 'Projects' directory by default in Linux desktop environments, providing a standardized location for project files that don't fit other categories. The release also includes Meson build system support and security fixes.