Arch Showcase Lab

A high-spec gallery of Linux desktop environments and window managers.

Desktop Environments

Daily

Qt / Kwin

KDE Plasma

Infinite customization powerhouse.

Stable

GTK4 / Mutter

GNOME

Minimalist and focused workflow.

Legacy

GTK3 / X11

XFCE

Rock solid and lightweight.

Alpha

Rust / iced

System76 COSMIC

Next-gen high performance GUI.

Polished

GTK3 / Muffin

Cinnamon

Traditional desktop experience.

Classic

GTK3 / Marco

MATE

The continuation of GNOME 2.

Modern

GTK / Raven

Budgie

Elegant and modern simplicity.

Lite

Qt / Openbox

LXQt

Extremely lightweight Qt desktop.

Design

GTK / Gala

Pantheon

The elementaryOS experience.

Visual

Qt / DTK

Deepin DE

Most beautiful out of the box.

Window Managers

Elite

Wayland / wlroots

Hyprland

Dynamic blur and eye-candy.

Stable

X11 / Polybar

i3-gaps

The tiling workflow standard.

Modern

Wayland / wlroots

Sway

i3-compatible for Wayland.

Power

X11 / Lua

AwesomeWM

Highly scriptable with Lua.

Minimal

X11 / sxhkd

bspwm

Binary space partitioning WM.

Dev

Python / Wayland

Qtile

Full control using Python.

Hardcore

X11 / C

dwm

Suckless and extremely fast.