Related earlier:

Étoilé – desktop built on GNUStep

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45123003

For completeness, I should point out that GSDE does inherit a little from an older project in a similar vein -- NEXTSPACE:

https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

It's Ukrainian so not much development in a while, because of the war. Also, it mainly targets CentOS, so I've not tried it as that's not a distro I enjoy using.

I’m going to try this

I installed it on Debian 12.11 last week, and it's working. Note that there's a bug in 1 of the make scripts, described in the GitHub issues. It needs 2 requirements swapped around. But maybe it's been fixed now. I plan to try again on Debian 13, and I'll find out...