Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS


Budgie is described as 'The Budgie Desktop is a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user. It consists of a number of components to provide a more complete desktop experience' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Budgie for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best Budgie alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Budgie are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE.





Window Maker has a reputation for being fast, efficient and highly stable. Window Maker has been characterized as reproducing "the elegant look and feel of the NeXTstep GUI" and is noted as "easy to configure and easy to use.








Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and Fluxbox. It is being developed on PC-BSD, and is being packaged for distribution on the PC-BSD package repository as well.
Lomiri is the open source mobile and desktop environment that adapts to you computing needs. Supported on all kinds devices.




UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.




Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux
Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems


GNUstep's core framework provides open source version of the Cocoa's (formerly known as OpenStep from NeXT) APIs and tools for as many platforms as possible.

KDE 3.5 fork. A computer desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining the function and form of traditional desktop computers.


