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


Kera Desktop is the most popular Windows alternative to GNOME.
- Kera Desktop is Free and Open Source
GNOME is described as 'An easy and elegant way to use your computer, GNOME is designed to help you have the best possible computing experience' and is a leading desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to GNOME for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best GNOME alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNOME are Xfce, Cinnamon, Hyprland and MATE.


Kera Desktop is the most popular Windows alternative to GNOME.

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.







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




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



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




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.
komorebi is a tiling window manager that works as an extension to Microsoft's Desktop Window Manager in Windows 10 and above.




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


hikari [ja. Light] is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.



