Noctalia is a beautiful, minimal desktop shell for Wayland built with Quickshell. It’s designed with a “quiet by design” philosophy, providing a complete desktop experience that stays out of your way.
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Liteshell Alternatives
Liteshell is described as 'Tiny windows shell (explorer.exe) replacement designed for slow PCs. Is a minimalist's shell - no screen space is occupied by the shell. When you right-click on the desktop or press a hotkey, a menu provides access to your programs, documents, tasks and anything else you' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Liteshell for Windows, Linux, BSD and Wayland. The best Liteshell alternative is Noctalia, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Liteshell are Cairo Shell, WindowBlinds, Window Maker and Emerge Desktop.
Alternatives list
- 38 Noctalia alternatives
38 Cairo Shell alternativesCairo is a desktop environment for Windows. Its goal is to develop a desktop experience that increases productivity and advances current technology standards.
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37 WindowBlinds alternativesCustomize Windows 10 and 11 with skins for Start menu and taskbar. Includes SkinStudio for designing skins, offering personalized fonts, and color and transparency adjustments.
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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.
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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...
31 DMS alternativesDesktop 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
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26 SharpEnviro alternativesSharpEnviro (or SharpE) is an open source shell replacement system for Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. When using SharpEnviro the default Windows desktop is replaced by a new and more powerful desktop environment.
BB4Win (Blackbox for Windows) is an alternative shell for Microsoft Windows. The program aims to emulate the look and feel of a Linux based desktop. The BB4Win project was discontinued in 2005 but various branches have been built from the source.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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16 xoblite alternativesxoblite is an advanced "extended shell" for Microsoft® Windows® 10/11, part of the Blackbox for Windows family.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
bbLean is the lean version of Blackbox for Windows. It tries to keep balance between features and complexity, to give you some efficient means within a compact shell.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek Software. It is available in a number of languages including English, French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Russian and Italian.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
GeoShell - The premier minimalist Windows shell replacement. It replaces the default Explorer interface. It features menu bars—“geoBars”—that can be dragged-and-dropped anywhere on the users screen. There are also desktop menus that can be triggered whenever a user clicks...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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