15 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktops You’ll Ever See
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Who said Linux can’t look pretty? For long its been said that Linux is the most boring OS ever and is not user friendly. I’ve been a linux user for sometime and I can say that my experience with it was nothing short of marvelous. Linux offers you unlimited amount of control as to how can you customize your desktop.
Scoring around the net I found some really fantastic desktops and here is what I feel are the best of what I’ve seen. Certainly not the most exhaustive list, but they are reminiscent to the fact that Linux can look pretty good if you know how to make it look good.
Without further delay, here are my favorite Linux desktops, and I’m sure they are some of the prettiest you’ll ever see.
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Are you a Linux user? Please show us your desktops.. It will be go a long way in promoting Linux as a User friendly OS. If you have come across other cool looking Linux desktops, please share them as well.
Way to go Tux!!
21 Comments, Comment or Ping
Rishav Uprety
I think I also have a nice desktop with screenlets.
Please look at
http://techspalace.blogspot.com/2008/04/screenlets-mac-or-vista-widget-for.html
Aug 4th, 2008
Eddie Turfboer
I would be nice if you could give use some more information, for instance the name of the desktop, distribution, user, etc. So we can find our way back and make a similar one on our own…?
Aug 4th, 2008
Karthik Kastury
@Eddie, I’d have loved to, but I have found these screenshots on Flickr, with no roots back to its origin, which makes it nearly impossible to get some more information..
Aug 4th, 2008
IanG
Just this morning i turned my Linux box (KDE3.something) into a Hackintosh. If i don`t like Leopard that much i will instantly remedy
the situation with KDE 4.1
Aug 4th, 2008
Tomas
#13 is enlightenment which is still a beta. It looks to be basically one of the built in themes with a few minor modifications.
http://www.enlightenment.org/
Aug 4th, 2008
Steve
#7 is a Mac OSX?
Aug 4th, 2008
Roger
@Steve, don’t think so. Compiz fusion or something like that.
Aug 4th, 2008
Rodrigo
@Eddie, It’d be a nice idea to have all the links related to these guys, but as Karthik said, it’s nearly impossible. Although, you can find some really nice linux screenshots at deviantart.
@Steve, I believe #7 was created following this tutorial:
http://maketecheasier.com/turn-your-ubuntu-hardy-to-mac-osx-leopard/2008/07/23/
Very nice post indeed. Maybe, when you try to create another one, you might search through the customization section of http://www.deviantart.com. In there, guys usually link their themes and window managers.
Aug 4th, 2008
Eddie Turfboer
I would be interested in the links from 4,5,6,7,13 (where 13 is alreaddy been answered…lucky number 13…?).
Aug 5th, 2008
Codmister
If I’m reading the numbers right, #6 would be my favorite, simply because they have Songbird installed
In all honesty though, that’s a nice looking desktop.
Aug 6th, 2008
Aj
hey i would like to know more about this linux OS and i would like to know which one i should download if i could get a link or something that would help me out a lot thanks
Aug 6th, 2008
Myke
Bummer…you left mine out >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/flipplenicker/2622473777/
Still a nice set you have here!
Aug 8th, 2008
Mani Karthik
Great list. Thanks Kartik - loved each one.
Aug 8th, 2008
Multi-Monitor Computers
Some of those are really nice. I’m building my first Linux Machine right now. I love this Post! Great Job!
Aug 12th, 2008
Shoto
Hi there!
You have selected some beautiful pieces here
Some of them I’ve already seen on this previous top list:
http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2008/05/17/10-most-beautiful-looking-linux-desktop/
…I wonder: is it a good thing or does this mean a lot of users with wonderful desktops are hiding their creatures? The saddest part is that neither you nor the author of the other top-list have been able to retrieve instructions or addition infos about these desktops… #10 looks wonderful for a child and I’d love to put that on the eeepc of my little sister…
Any chance you publish at least the name/credits of the Flickr users you’ve taken the pictures from?
Thank you
Aug 16th, 2008
Shoto
#11 and #14 can be also seen in:
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml
they have been awarded as 1st and 4th best looking Gentoo desktops in a not-so-recent contest…
All credits go to Bartek and Alexander as I can read. I wish this may be of help in getting in touch with them and, maybe?, asking help to get the same effect on your desktops
Aug 16th, 2008
nicknowsky
#7 is either Linux Tiger or DreamLinux. Both of which I have been really into lately. Actually any and ALL distros that look like OSX, those 2 are the best by default
Aug 26th, 2008
Hugh E Torrance
The desktop is mostly the wallpaper and as far as I am concerned mine are better…anyone can find nice wallpapers including windoz users at http://www.kde-look.org and of course its all free…
I have seven Linux,s and the only desktop wallpaper I kept was Fedora 6 (double helix) and Fedora 7 (balloons) …
Sep 3rd, 2008
Jeff Parrish
Here is a link to my desktop screenshot::
http://www.j-capwebdesign.com/images/Screanshot.png
I use Ubuntu! It will one day conquer windows!
Sep 9th, 2008
Kyle
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=906733 has some good screenshots… They have a screenshot thread each month. Some of the best ones include enlightenment, openbox, IceWM and xfce4 (in my opinion). I haven’t tried enlightenment yet, but a lot of people like it.
Sep 15th, 2008
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