SparkyLinux is a set of Debian-based desktop Linux distributions. The project provides separate editions with KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE and Xfce desktops, as well as a lightweight flavour featuring the Openbox window manager. It offers two variants of its products - a conservative one based on Debian's "Stable" branch, and a more up-to-date one derived from Debian "Testing".

• SparkyLinux 2026.03
• SparkyLinux 8.2
• SparkyLinux 8.1
• SparkyLinux 2025.09
• SparkyLinux 8.0

Sparky is THE lightweight distro to use. It’s fast, stable and performs better than other “lightweight” distros like MX, Linux Lite and Peppermint. Sparky is also very customizable and has a lot of applications to choose from in the repositories and you can add in more repositories too for even more customization and applications. I haven’t had any crashes using this. It lets me get my day-to-day use done and stays out of my way. Sparky just works. I recommend download and using this distro.