Desktop Environment (13)

• KDE e.V. Homepage (KDE e.V.) organisation
  Registered non-profit handling KDE's legal and financial affairs, membership and patron sponsorship
  Governance Nonprofit Project Funding #
• GNOME Foundation (GNOME Foundation) organisation
  Nonprofit holding GNOME's funds, trademarks and infrastructure; elected board and annual reports
  Governance Nonprofit #
• Fedora Linux (fedoraproject.org) tool
  Red Hat's upstream community distro: GNOME Workstation plus alternative spins, forums and contributor docs
  Distro #
• openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers (openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers) tool
  Leap and Tumbleweed flavours: rolling or immutable, Btrfs snapshots, full-disk encryption, opt-in codecs
  Distro #
• About Linux Mint - Linux Mint (linuxmint.com) article
  Ubuntu-based desktop distribution pitched at Windows and macOS switchers; project history from 2006 onward
  Debian Distro #
• GNOME (gnome.org) tool
  Desktop stack shipped by default on RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora; app platform and design system
  Wayland #
• Plasma (kde.org) tool
  KDE's Qt-based desktop shell; customisable panels, widgets and the KWin compositor
  Window Manager #
• Xfce Desktop Environment (xfce.org) tool
  lightweight GTK desktop for UNIX-like systems, tuned for low resource use; roughly two-year release cadence
  Window Manager #
• Wayland (wayland.freedesktop.org) tool
  Display protocol and libwayland IPC; no single server, each desktop ships its own compositor
  Wayland Window Manager #
• PipeWire (pipewire.org) tool
  Low-latency graph engine replacing PulseAudio and JACK, sandbox-safe for Flatpak apps
  Audio #
• Flatpak (Flatpak) tool
  Sandboxed app bundles on shared runtimes, distributed via Flathub; one build for every distro
  Distro Package Manager #
• Flathub - Apps for Linux (flathub.org) tool
  Cross-distribution Flatpak store: browse trending and new desktop apps, plus per-distro setup steps
  Package Manager #
• AppImage (appimage.org) tool
  Single-file bundle format: download, chmod +x, run, with no install and no per-distro packaging
  Package Manager #