Budgie Alternatives

Budgie is described as 'The Budgie Desktop is a feature-rich, modern desktop designed to keep out the way of the user. It consists of a number of components to provide a more complete desktop experience' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Budgie for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best Budgie alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Budgie are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Noctalia.

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  1. Kera Desktop icon
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    An easy, pleasant, speedy, and exciting way to use your favorite OS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
     
  2. Maui Shell icon
     5 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Phosh icon
     5 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
     
  4. Window Maker icon
     10 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. DDE icon
     5 likes

    DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is a Desktop Environment (DE) written in Qt for Deepin

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Deepin
     
  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. Lomiri icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • Ubuntu Touch
     
  8. 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
     
  9.  3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. EDE icon
     9 likes

    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
     
  11. 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
     
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