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.

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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

Top 10K · #2,392 English 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit KDE

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

web.devOpenCodeGitHubOSFNode.jsfreedesktop.orgRustDeskLinux kerneldoxygen.orgopenSUSE

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to KDE

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to KDE, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    openSUSE opensuse.org Top 10K English

    openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers

    openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.

  2. 02
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  3. 03
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

  4. 04
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    freedesktop.org Top 10K English

    Checking you are not a bot

    open-source desktop environment software project

  6. 06
    Kubernetes kubernetes.io Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Open Source googlesource.com Top 10K English

    Google Open Source

    Google <3 Open Source

  8. 08
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

  9. 09
    Enlightenment enlightenment.org Top 10K English

    Enlightenment Main

    window manager for Unix-like operating systems

  10. 10
    Node.js nodejs.org Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

  12. 12
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English

    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.

  13. 13
    centos.org Top 10K English

    The CentOS Project

    Linux distribution

  14. 14
    Drupal drupal.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    free and open-source web content management system

  15. 15
    Codeberg e.V. codeberg.org Top 10K English

    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.

  16. 16
    OpenCode opencode.ai Top 10K English

    OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent

    OpenCode - The open source coding agent.

  17. 17
    LibreOffice libreoffice.org Top 10K English

    Free and private office suite, no forced AI — LibreOffice

    LibreOffice is a free office suite

  18. 18
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  19. 19
    Blender blender.org Top 10K English

    Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org

    The Freedom to Create

  20. 20
    JetBrains jetbrains.com Top 1K English

    JetBrains: Essential tools for software developers and teams

    JetBrains is a cutting-edge software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools, including IntelliJ IDEA – the leading Java IDE, and the Kotlin programming language.

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.

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Email hosting
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