Gershwin Desktop

Gershwin is a desktop environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers.

Gershwin offers Workspace, Terminal, TextEdit, System Preferences, a native Window Manager for X11 apps, Global Menu server for GNUstep/X11 apps, and more.

Gershwin can be built from source code in less than a few minutes using a First-class Clang/LLVM toolchain.
The entire system including Window Manager only consumes under 50MB of storage.
Gershwin is completely self contained from the underlying operating system.
Local Users and Local Applications are kept separate from Network Users and Network Applications and System Applications.
Users can install Application bundles without root credentials in the Users folder.
Applications built using Gershwin and its underlying GNUstep foundation can run on other many operating systems including Windows.
Multiple versions of core libraries can co-exist to guarantee long term ABI stability.