LXDE Alternatives

LXDE is described as 'The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment' and is a very popular desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LXDE for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Wayland and Mac apps. The best LXDE alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LXDE are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and LXQt.

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  1. IceWM icon
     11 likes

    IceWM is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Phosh icon
     8 likes

    Phosh is a pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices like the Purism Librem 5.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • GNOME
    • Wayland
     
  3. Maui Shell icon
     5 likes

    Maui Shell is a convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) vs LXDE Comments
    thilriposta
    Positive
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    both simple and lightweight!

    Guest
    Positive
    0

    It's running fine on older machines like P4 and C2D

    • Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is Free and Open SourceLXDE is also Free and Open Source
    • Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is Customizable and Privacy focusedLXDE is not according to our users
  5. DMS icon
     3 likes

    Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, and labwc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  6. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD
     
  7.  3 likes

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

    27 Moksha alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. GNUstep icon
     6 likes

    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
     
  9. UKUI icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Emerge Desktop icon
     16 likes

    Emerge Desktop is a replacement Windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace Windows Explorer as a shell, it provides a system tray (the area that collects the icons collected at the...

    24 Emerge Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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