This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• A new Linux desktop is in the works.
• This portable desktop can be run like an app.
• Orbitiny is free to use and runs on any Linux distribution.

Leave it to the Linux community to come up with something that no other operating system can do. It happens all the time, and the creativity and ingenuity of these developers never cease to amaze me.

Such is the case with a new desktop environment called Orbitiny. The goal of this new desktop, which has been built from scratch using Qt and C++, is to be both familiar and unique.

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Orbitiny is also modular; if one part breaks, the whole will continue to function. Orbitiny doesn't have its own window manager; instead, it runs on top ...