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Enlightenment Feature

Enlightenment Desktop Review: A Beautiful, Lightweight but Different Desktop Manager

Enlightenment is an extremely lightweight window manager that has a huge amount of utility baked into it. Check out our Enlightenment review here.

By John Perkins – Oct 1, 2020

Budgie Feature

Budgie Desktop Review: A Beautiful Desktop that Looks Like Gnome

Budgie is a beautiful desktop that aims to provide sane defaults and a beautiful interface. Find out more in this Budgie desktop review.

By John Perkins – Sep 10, 2020

Lxqt Feature

LXQt Review: A Lightweight, Extensible and Attractive Desktop Environment

Users looking for extreme performance in a Desktop Environment can look no further than LXQt. This LXQt review will discuss who should use LXQt and why.

By John Perkins – Aug 31, 2020

Lxde Feature

LXDE Review: Light as a Feather

For those looking for a lightweight desktop environment, LXDE is the one for you. This LXDE review will cover the basics of LXDE.

By John Perkins – Aug 21, 2020

Pantheon Feature

Pantheon Desktop Review: A Beautiful Alternative to macOS

The Pantheon Desktop is one of the most visually appealing desktops around. This Pantheon Desktop review will show you some of its notable features.

By John Perkins – Aug 4, 2020

Mate Feature

MATE Review: A Lightweight Desktop Environment for the Nostalgic

MATE is one of the Linux desktops based on Gnome 2. This MATE review will look at its user interface, performance, and some notable features.

By John Perkins – Jul 28, 2020

Install Pantheon On Ubuntu

How to Install and Run Pantheon Desktop on Ubuntu

Pantheon is a popular Linux desktop environment, but it’s not available for Ubuntu. Learn how to install Pantheon on you Ubuntu PC.

By Nick Congleton – Nov 29, 2018

The Best Linux Desktop Environments for HiDPI Displays

macOS and Windows 10 have good HiDPI support for high-resolution monitors. Here are the best Linux desktop environments to use with HiDPI displays.

By Derrik Diener – Dec 28, 2016

Lumina, a Lightweight Desktop Environment

Lumina is a super-light, user-friendly and very customisable desktop environment. Let’s check out how it performs in our review.

By Attila Orosz – Oct 3, 2015

Lightweight Desktop For Linux: What’s the Best One for You?

Most people love a pretty desktop, but for those who prefer something light, here is a list of all the different lightweight desktop environments for Linux.

By Derrik Diener – Mar 4, 2015

How to Install the Budgie Desktop Environment on Linux

Looking to try out Budgie without installing the whole Evolve OS distro? Here is how you can install Budgie on Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora and OpenSUSE.

By Derrik Diener – Dec 23, 2014

Test LXQt (Upcoming Version of the LXDE Desktop) on Ubuntu

The next version of LXDE will be based on LXQt, which is a merge of the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects. Here is how you can test LXQt on (L)Ubuntu.

By Gary Sims – Jun 30, 2014

Hybryde Fusion: Get 11 Desktop Environments in One Distro [Linux]

Do you want to test the various desktop environments and see which one is the best for you? Look no further than Hybryde Fusion which let you test out 11 DE at once.

By Damien Oh – Mar 5, 2014

How to Easily Create a Custom Lightweight Desktop Environment

By Joshua Price – Aug 10, 2010

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