Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system.
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COSMIC Alternatives
COSMIC is described as 'The name for the main shell components in Pop_Shell' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to COSMIC for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best COSMIC alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like COSMIC are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Hyprland.
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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.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
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komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.
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Emerge Desktop is a replacement Windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the...
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
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Platforms
- Linux
- Linux Mobile
- Ubuntu Touch
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hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- BSD
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
- Ubuntu
- Deepin
29 CDE (Common Desktop Environment) alternativesThe 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 available as open-source software for the first time.
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