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.
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COSMIC Alternatives
COSMIC is described as 'The name for the main shell components in Pop_Shell' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to COSMIC for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best COSMIC alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like COSMIC are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Hyprland.
Alternatives list
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- Open Source
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- Linux
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Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems
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.
UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions. It is developed using GTK and Qt.
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Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux
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.
6 Aqua alternativesAqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS operating system.
Linux auto tiling manager with hot corner support for Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM, Xfwm, KWin, Marco, Muffin, Mutter and other EWMH compliant window managers using the X11 window system.
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