EDE Alternatives

EDE is described as 'Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to EDE for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Chrome OS apps. The best EDE alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like EDE are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and MATE.

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  1. Phosh icon
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    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
     
  2. Window Maker icon
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    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
     
  3. 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

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Bluetile icon
     8 likes

    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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