360 Like GNOME Good alternative? YES NO The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive... Free Open Source Linux BSD Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature
257 Like Xfce Good alternative? YES NO Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD. It aims to be... Free Open Source Linux BSD Lightweight Add a feature
254 Like KDE Good alternative? YES NO KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDEs products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Optimize for fast boot Add a feature
96 Like MATE Good alternative? YES NO MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
97 Like LXDE Good alternative? YES NO The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. Free Open Source Linux BSD Lightweight Add a feature
53 Like Unity Good alternative? YES NO Unity is a shell interface for the Gnome desktop environment developed by Canonical Ltd for its Ubuntu operating system. It is designed to make more efficient use of... Free Open Source Linux Heads-Up Display Add a feature Discontinued Cannonical has announced that Unity will be discontinued in favour of Ubuntu 18.04 using GNOME. Article at https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-and-iot-rather-than-phone-and-convergence/.
28 Like LXQt Good alternative? YES NO LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the... Free Open Source Linux BSD Lightweight Add a feature
40 Like Enlightenment Good alternative? YES NO Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Lightweight Add a feature
14 Like Budgie Good alternative? YES NO Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus OS and is part of the Solus Project. Designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance. Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
13 Like Lumina Desktop Environment Alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Linux BSD PC-BSD No features added Add a feature
8 Like EDE Good alternative? YES NO Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems Free Open Source Linux BSD Solaris No features added Add a feature
5 Like CDE (Common Desktop Environment) YES NO The Common Desktop Environment was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Used on a selection of commercial UNIXs, it is now... Free Open Source Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
6 Like Elokab Good alternative? YES NO Elokab Desktop Environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for Linux which uses QT libraries like KDE . Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
