Linux Distributions

A visually striking, China-developed distribution built around its own from-scratch desktop environment, DDE, known for smooth animations and a control-center design.

The official KDE Plasma edition of Fedora, offering the same fast-moving, upstream-close base as Fedora Workstation with a Plasma desktop instead of GNOME.

Red Hat's community distribution and the reference GNOME desktop -- fast-moving, close to upstream, and the proving ground for features that later land in RHEL.

An unofficial, user-friendliness-focused respin of openSUSE that pre-configures codecs, drivers, and desktop tweaks openSUSE itself leaves out for licensing reasons.

The official KDE Plasma flavor of Ubuntu, pairing Ubuntu's hardware support and package base with Plasma's traditional, highly configurable desktop.

An Xfce-based distribution built explicitly as a first step for Windows users, tracking only Ubuntu LTS releases for maximum stability.

An Ubuntu-based distribution built around the traditional-desktop Cinnamon environment, aimed squarely at users coming from Windows.

The Linux Mint team's own proof that Mint's Cinnamon desktop can stand on Debian directly, without Ubuntu underneath.

The lightest official Ubuntu flavor, built on the Qt-based LXQt desktop specifically to keep running well on older or resource-constrained machines.

A Debian-Stable-based distribution combining a lightweight Xfce desktop with a set of original MX Tools that make common admin tasks point-and-click.

A German-developed, KDE-Plasma-focused distribution built directly on Debian, offering a polished, curated Plasma experience with extra multimedia codecs preinstalled.

A long-running, independently developed rpm-based distribution using a rolling-but-curated release model, with KDE Plasma as its flagship edition.

A lightweight Debian-based distribution historically known for cloud/web-app integration, rebuilt directly on Debian after moving away from its Lubuntu/Ubuntu roots.

System76's own Ubuntu-based distribution, developed to ship on its laptops and desktops, now built around an original Rust desktop environment called COSMIC.

SUSE's commercially supported enterprise desktop operating system, sharing its certified package core with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

The world's most widely used desktop Linux distribution, backed by Canonical with predictable LTS releases every two years.

The official Budgie-desktop flavor of Ubuntu, combining Ubuntu's base with a desktop originally built for Solus that emphasizes simplicity and a built-in widget sidebar (Raven).

The official MATE flavor of Ubuntu, offering a traditional GNOME 2-style desktop for users who never warmed to GNOME 3's redesign.

The official Xfce flavor of Ubuntu, aimed at users who want Ubuntu's ecosystem on a lighter, more traditional desktop than GNOME.

An Ubuntu-based distribution with a layout switcher that mimics Windows or MacOS, marketed directly at people switching operating systems.

A design-obsessed, MacOS-flavored distribution built around its own in-house Pantheon desktop and a curated, sandboxed app store.

A stable, fixed-release distribution that shares its core package base with SUSE's commercial enterprise product, giving it unusually well-tested packages for a community distro.