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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  1. EDE icon
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    Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
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    ProgwiDE - Simple and lightweight DE, made with Tk.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD
     
  4. UKUI icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu Kylin
     
  5. Elokab icon
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    Elokab Desktop Environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for Linux which uses QT libraries like KDE Plasma .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Bluetile icon
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    Bluetile is a tiling window manager for Linux, designed to integrate with the GNOME desktop environment. It provides both a traditional, stacking layout mode as well as tiling layouts where windows are arranged to use the entire screen without overlapping.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Aqua icon
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    Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system.

    6 Aqua alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Aqua is the most popular commercial alternative to COSMIC.

    • Aqua is Paid and ProprietaryCOSMIC is Free and Open Source
  9. xfdashboard icon
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    xfdashboard provides a GNOME shell dashboard like interface for use with the Xfce desktop. It can be configured to run to any keyboard shortcut and when executed provides an overview of applications...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. FyneDesk icon
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    FyneDesk is an easy to use Linux/Unix desktop environment following material design. It is built using the Fyne toolkit and is designed to be easy to use as well as easy to develop. We use the Go language and welcome any contributions or feedback for the project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
  11. Cortile icon
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    Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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