# GUI desktops on Linux distributions
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/gui-desktops-on-linux-distributions/68175
**Category:** Archived
**Tags:** linux-forum
**Created:** [May 1, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/gui-desktops-on-linux-distributions/68175 "2005-05-01T00:09:44Z")
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### Author:  [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/gui-desktops-on-linux-distributions/68175/1 "2005-05-01T00:09:44Z")
Came across an open source project called XPDE [http://www.xpde.com/](http://www.xpde.com/) which may interest some of you looking for a desktop GUI that resembles Windows XP. The closest I’ve seen to this is with Linspire where they’ve modified the GUI of KDE to resemble Windows XP GUI. There’s similar GUI goodies over at [http://kde-look.org/](http://kde-look.org/) where if one so desires you can have the look of OSX GUI (see Baghira). For those interested in knowing who’s using KDE and what version here you go [http://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php](http://www.kde.org/download/distributions.php)
Cheers 
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### Author:  [@meeky](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/meeky)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/gui-desktops-on-linux-distributions/68175/2 "2005-05-02T22:45:54Z")
Yikes why o why.
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### Author:  [@user\_deleted](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/user_deleted)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2005, 5:12am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/gui-desktops-on-linux-distributions/68175/3 "2005-05-03T05:12:17Z")
Because you have the freedom to choose. Changing the GUI to resemble another desktop as seen in Windows XP or OSX Tiger isn’t necessarily a bad thing as long as you like it and find it useful.