Alternatives and competitors
Sites like KDE
The 20 closest open-source desktop software alternatives to KDE, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 4 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to KDE? The closest matches are GNOME, Fedora Project and openSUSE. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 28 ms
01 · Entity
About KDE
KDE kde.org
Home - KDE Community
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
Wikidata: free software project and community
Summary by Claude
KDE is an international free and open-source software community that develops the Plasma desktop environment for Linux and more than 200 applications such as Krita, Kontact, Kdenlive, Okular and GCompris.
- Who it’s for
- Linux and desktop computer users, developers
- Business model
- Donations
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to KDE’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to KDE
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to KDE, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Very close cos 0.905 - 02
Fedora Linux | The Fedora Project
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
Very close cos 0.894 - 03
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Close cos 0.893 - 04
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.892 - 05
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.892 - 06
RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions
RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.
Close cos 0.890 - 07
Checking you are not a bot
open-source desktop environment software project
Close cos 0.883 - 08
Kubernetes
Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Planet scaleDesigned on the same principles that allow Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your operations team.
Close cos 0.880 - 09
Google Open Source
Google <3 Open Source
Close cos 0.881 - 10
Zenodo
research data repository
Close cos 0.882 - 11
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Close cos 0.881 - 12
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Close cos 0.879 - 13
Node.js — Run JavaScript Everywhere
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
Close cos 0.879 - 14
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Close cos 0.881 - 15
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Close cos 0.880 - 16
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Close cos 0.877 - 17
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Close cos 0.879 - 18
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Close cos 0.877 - 19
Moodle challenge
e-learning platform
Close cos 0.877 - 20
OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent
OpenCode - The open source coding agent.
Close cos 0.875
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to kde.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones KDE uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What KDE is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: matomo.php
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms58770837
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=tzNwQZyrp8RlOlIzlAPwBkBzDggU0cb65lXEvosYjmw
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what KDE adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on kde.org 7/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on kde.org 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on kde.org 5/20
- Apache HTTP Server 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on kde.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on kde.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on kde.org 3/20
- Mailchimp · not on kde.org 3/20
- Matomo 2/20
- nginx · not on kde.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on kde.org 2/20
- Google Cloud DNS · not on kde.org 2/20
- Google Cloud · not on kde.org 2/20
- cdnjs · not on kde.org 2/20