KDE Plasma Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to KDE Plasma is GNOME, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are Cinnamon, Xfce, Noctalia and LXQt. There's no shortage of Desktop Environments like KDE Plasma, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac and Chrome OS.

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  1. GNUstep icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. SonicDE icon
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    X11-focused, init-agnostic desktop environment forked from KDE, actively removing Wayland elements, supporting Linux and BSD, working on a Vulkan backend, prioritizing compatibility with X.Org Server and adopting new X11 features without init dependencies.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Arch Linux
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  3. EDE icon
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    Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
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  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. FyneDesk icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  6.  1 like

    ProgwiDE - Simple and lightweight DE, made with Tk.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  7. Bluetile icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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