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 available as open-source software for the first time.




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 Ubuntu Touch 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 MATE.
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 available as open-source software for the first time.




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.

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.

