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
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
67 Like VirtuaWin Good alternative? YES NO VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com No features added Add a feature
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
13 Like Cairo Shell Good alternative? YES NO Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows. Its goal is to develop a desktop experience that increases productivity and advances current technology standards. Free Open Source Windows Customizable 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
6 Like Bluetile Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Linux Snap windows Add a feature
4 Like bug.n Good alternative? YES NO bug.n is a tiling window manager add-on for Microsoft Windows. It is written in the scripting language AutoHotkey. What it can do Provide layouts for resizing... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature
8 Like SharpEnviro Alternative? YES NO SharpEnviro (or SharpE) is an open source shell replacement system for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. When using SharpEnviro the default Windows... Free Open Source Windows Support for Multiple Monitors Add a feature Discontinued As of december 2011 the SharpEnviro project is no longer under active development. All files provided come without any warranty or support! It is uncertain if or how well the previously released versions of SharpEnviro will work with any new or updated Windows system after Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
12 Like LiteStep Good alternative? YES NO LiteStep is a replacement desktop interface for Windows. The LiteStep Shell allows creation of custom desktop interfaces in ways that you find useful (and eye... Free Windows Modular System Add a feature
11 Like BB4Win Good alternative? YES NO BB4Win (Blackbox for Windows) is an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows. The program aims to emulate the look and feel of a Linux based desktop. The BB4Win project... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued Latest release 2009, see http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/
1 Like bbLean Good alternative? YES NO bbLean is the lean version of Blackbox for Windows. It tries to keep balance between features and complexity, to give you some efficient means within a compact shell. ... Free Open Source Windows No features added Add a feature Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.17.1, released in May 2009, can be still downloaded from the official website.
2 Like Talisman Desktop Good alternative? YES NO Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek Software. It is available in a number of languages including English, French... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
