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.




LXQt is described as 'The Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the ' and is a popular desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to LXQt for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Linux Mobile apps. The best LXQt alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LXQt are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Noctalia.
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.




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.



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



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.




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





Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems


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.




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




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.

