Budgie Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Kera Desktop

    10 likes

   An easy, pleasant, speedy, and exciting way to use your favorite OS.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Desktop Environment
   • Window Manager

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Chrome OS

   

   

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   Phosh

    8 likes

   Phosh is a pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices like the Purism Librem 5.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Desktop Environment

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Linux Mobile
   • GNOME
   • Wayland

   • United States

   

   

   

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   Maui Shell

    5 likes

   Maui Shell is a convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (LGPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Desktop Environment

   Origin

   • Costa Rica

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • Costa Rica

   

   

   

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   Window Maker

    11 likes

   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.

   45 Window Maker alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Window Manager
   • Desktop Environment

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   • United States

   

   

   

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   UKUI

    4 likes

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Desktop Environment

   Origin

   • China

   Platforms

   • Linux

   • China

   

   

   

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   Lumina Desktop Environment

    13 likes

   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.

   58 Lumina Desktop Environment alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Desktop Environment

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD
   • PC-BSD

   

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9. 

   

   DDE

    5 likes

   DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is a Desktop Environment (DE) written in Qt for Deepin

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Desktop Environment
   • Window Manager

   Origin

   • China

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Ubuntu
   • Deepin

   • China

   

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10. 

    

    DMS

     3 likes

    Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, and labwc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    

    

    

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    Lomiri

     2 likes

    Lomiri is the open source mobile and desktop environment that adapts to you computing needs. Supported on all kinds devices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application typeApplication types

    • Desktop Environment
    • Application Launcher

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Ubuntu Touch

    • Germany
    • EU

    

    

    

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    Moksha

     3 likes

    Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Desktop Environment

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Linux

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    EDE

     9 likes

    Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application typeApplication types

    • Desktop Environment
    • Window Manager

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris

    

    

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    GNUstep

     5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Desktop Environment

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    • United States

    

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