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i3 AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Desktop Environments
The best Desktop Environment alternative to i3 is GNOME, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to i3 and eight of them are Desktop Environments so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Desktop Environment alternatives to i3 are Hyprland, COSMIC, Kera Desktop and Maui Shell.
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- 31 GNOME alternatives
33 Hyprland alternativesAn independent tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. Noteworthy features of Hyprland include dynamic tiling, tabbed windows, a clean and readable C++ code-base, and a custom renderer that provides window animations, rounded corners, and Dual-Kawase Blur on transparent windows.
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- Free
- Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)
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- Linux
- BSD
- openSUSE
- Arch Linux
- Gentoo
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- FreeBSD
- Alpine Linux
- Slackware
- Wayland
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Chrome OS
pekwm is a window manager that once up on a time was based on the aewm++ window manager, but it has evolved enough that it no longer resembles aewm++ at all. It has a much expanded feature-set, including window grouping (similar to ion, pwm, or fluxbox), autoproperties...
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MacOS Niri and Hyprland inspired tiling window manager that's developer signed and notorized (safe for managed enterprise environments). Aiming for parity and extra innovation.
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