Desktop Environment GitHub Repositories (2026) · Open Source Tools

🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.

Free, open-source tiling window manager for Apple Silicon Macs, with Niri-style scrolling containers and Hyprland-style Dwindle BSP.

The Serenity Operating System 🐞

Omarchy 4.x vendored for NixOS — the upstream tree packaged as a derivation, not reimplemented in Nix

A native glass desktop for Windows 11: floating taskbar and desktop widgets with real-time refraction. Architecture review and verified feasibility probes.

Desktop environment in the browser

Cairo is a customizable, intuitive desktop environment for Windows.

Websites, web apps, portfolios that look like desktop operating systems

Starling — a new Linux desktop environment: Swift shell, its own compositor, a Flutter-to-Swift framework port, and first-party apps

A shell for wayland compositors

An agent-native operating system, with Hermes Agent as the interface. Independent project, not affiliated with Nous Research.

LordOS — a free, fast and secure GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian, with its own desktop environment: display server and Wayland compositor in C, a React UI engine on QuickJS, and private native apps.

This is just a personal dotfiles. Multi-WM support: Hyprland, Niri, MangoWM and Labwc

Wayland compositor in C/wlroots where windows are physical objects (real Box2D rigid bodies) — and a full desktop besides: ten desktops on one scrolling world, tiling or floating per desktop, launcher, expo, screenshots, mixer and visualiser built in, live IPC. Legacy X11 version on the x11 branch.

Turn your Windows PC into a couch console. A free, controller-friendly front end in three shells — a channel grid, a blade dashboard and a media bar — with an optional, carefully guarded shell mode. Very early beta.

Open-source Android workstation: native multi-window desktops, X11/Wayland, Termux and MCP automation. Shroot runs Linux, systemd, Docker and Podman via Shizuku/Shevery without root. Android 14+; managed Desktop 15+.

Text-based desktop environment