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The Next Generation Personal Desktops

Fully customizable high-quality desktops, built on the latest open source technology. Trusted, powerful and easy.

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Why Fedora KDE?

  • Reliable

    Each version is updated for approximately 13 months, and upgrades between versions are quick and easy.


  • Free & private

    With Fedora, your desktop is your own. It's free, there are no ads, and your data belongs to you.


  • Customizable

    Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop lets you customize your desktop to your need and workflows, instead of the other way around.


  • Trusted

    Developed in partnership with upstream projects. Rigorously tested.


  • Leading technology

    Built on the latest technologies and enhancements that open source has to offer.


  • Makes the most of your device

    Fedora works with hardware vendors to make excellent hardware support across a range of devices.


What desktops are officially supported?

Gnome

GNOME 48 introduces stacking to the notification list. Notifications from the same app are grouped into stacks, each of which can be expanded to reveal individual messages. Stacking keeps the notification list organized and makes it easier to navigate. It also prevents the notification list from becoming too long.

Notification stacking is the latest in a series of notifications improvements, which included other enhancements in the previous GNOME 47 release. Together, these changes make notifications both more powerful and easier to use

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KDE Plasma

With Plasma the user is king. Not happy with the color scheme? Change it! Want to have your panel on the left edge of the screen? Move it! Don't like the font? Use a different one! Download custom widgets in one click and add them to your desktop or panel.

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XFCE

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability. It consists of a number of components that provide the full functionality one can expect of a modern desktop environment. They are packaged separately and you can pick among the available packages to create the optimal personal working environment.

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Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, which was originally based on GNOME 3, but follows traditional desktop metaphor conventions.

The development of Cinnamon began by the Linux Mint team as the result of the April 2011 release of GNOME 3, in which the conventional desktop metaphor of GNOME 2 was discarded in favor of GNOME Shell. Following several attempts to extend GNOME 3 so that it would suit the Linux Mint design goals through "Mint GNOME Shell Extensions", the Linux Mint team eventually forked several GNOME 3 components to build an independent desktop environment. This separation from GNOME was finished with the release of Cinnamon 2.0.0 on October 9, 2013. Applets, extensions, actions, and desklets made explicitly for Cinnamon are no longer compatible with GNOME Shell.

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MATE

The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating system.

MATE is under active development to add support for new technologies while preserving a traditional desktop experience.

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LXQt

The announcement of the first alpha release of LXQt used the phrase "LXDE-Qt or LXQt". Some distributions still have it categorized under the name LXDE-Qt, for historical reasons that should be clear by now. However, the debate is settled, and the official name of the project is LXQt.

Initially LXQt used Qt4. In June 2014, LXQt got full Qt5 support. Since version 0.9.0, LXQt only supports Qt5.

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Customizable

You can customize your desktop with widgets, like a calculator; clock and calendar to keep track of time; clipboard manager; dictionary; weather report; application launcher, and more.

Built by you

Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop is the result of work done across the Fedora Project, and everyone is welcome to participate. To learn how decisions are made about Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop, see the Fedora KDE Special Interest Group pages.

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