A beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland. A sleek and minimal desktop shell thoughtfully crafted for Wayland.

Built on Quickshell with a warm lavender aesthetic that you can easily customize to match your vibe.

• Noctalia @ GitHub.

Orbitiny Desktop Environment for Linux.

Built from the ground up using Qt and coded in C++, Orbitiny Desktop is a new, 100% portable, innovative and traditional but modern looking desktop environment for Linux. Innovative because it has features not seen in any other desktop environment before while keeping traditional aspects of computing alive (desktop icons, menus etc).

• Orbitiny Desktop @ SourceForge.

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• Orbitiny - Un environnement de bureau Linux 100% indé @ Korben :fr:.

Foundational software for designing beautiful user experiences. Use it on your favorite distro!

Impress users with the tools you build for them. COSMIC offers better performance, efficiency, and in-depth personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.

• COSMIC Desktop @ GitHub.
• WIP applets for cosmic-panel @ GitHub.

Related contents:

• Episode 636: Engineering the Future @ Linux Unplugged.