carbonOS Alternatives

carbonOS is described as 'Is designed to be minimal and intuitive. It gets out of your way and lets you focus on your work. Powerful features like system-wide search and the control center make it easy to accomplish quick tasks without opening any other apps' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are six alternatives to carbonOS for Linux, Self-Hosted, GNU Hurd, FreeBSD and BSD. The best carbonOS alternative is Gentoo, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like carbonOS are NixOS, Vanilla OS, Rocky Linux and Slackware.

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  1. Gentoo icon
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    Gentoo Linux is a versatile, fast, highly configurable and completely free Linux and FreeBSD distribution geared towards developers and network professionals.

    189 Gentoo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
     
    • Gentoo is the most popular Linux alternative to carbonOS.

    • Gentoo is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to carbonOS.

    • Gentoo is Free and Open SourcecarbonOS is also Free and Open Source
    • Gentoo is Customizable and Privacy focusedcarbonOS is not according to our users
  2. NixOS icon
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    NixOS is a GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In existing distributions, actions such as upgrades are dangerous: upgrading a package can cause other packages to break, upgrading an entire system is much less...

    188 NixOS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
    • NixOS is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to carbonOS.

    • NixOS is Free and Open SourcecarbonOS is also Free and Open Source
    • NixOS is Privacy focused and LightweightcarbonOS is not according to our users
  3. Vanilla OS icon
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    Vanilla OS is an operating system built with simplicity in mind. It's fast, lightweight, beautiful and ready for all your daily tasks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Rocky Linux icon
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    Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction. It is under intensive development by the community.

    173 Rocky Linux alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Slackware icon
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    Slackware Linux is an advanced Linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power...

    178 Slackware alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. GNU Guix icon
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    A purely functional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project—which respects the freedom of computer users.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • GNU Hurd
     
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