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• Cinnamon vs XfceXfce keeps a traditional panel-and-windows layout in a modular desktop whose components distributions can combine, with versions depending on the distribution.
• Cinnamon vs KDE PlasmaKDE Plasma is a full Linux desktop with more extensive appearance settings and KDE application integration, with defaults depending on the distribution.
• Cinnamon vs GNOMEGNOME organizes the desktop around an activities overview and workspaces instead of a traditional menu and panel, and its shell extensions must match the installed version.
• Cinnamon vs COSMICCOSMIC is System76's desktop with configurable workspaces and both tiling and floating workflows, needing a distribution and graphics stack that support the current release.
• Cinnamon vs MATEMATE keeps a traditional GNOME 2 style layout packaged in many distributions, though full releases arrive only every few years.
• Cinnamon vs BudgieBudgie is a tidy Linux desktop environment with its own panel and application menu, actively developed and usually installed through a distribution.
• Cinnamon vs EnlightenmentA window manager, compositor and minimal desktop for Linux, BSD and other UNIX systems.
• Cinnamon vs LXQtLXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop with lower resource use and X11 and Wayland sessions, though it has fewer integrated features.