Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS


Enlightenment is described as 'Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system' and is a popular desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Enlightenment for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Linux Mobile and FreeBSD apps. The best Enlightenment alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Enlightenment are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Noctalia.


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.








UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.




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.



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


Lomiri is the open source mobile and desktop environment that adapts to you computing needs. Supported on all kinds devices.




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.
