Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux




Maui Shell is described as 'Convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Maui Shell for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and KDE Plasma apps. The best Maui Shell alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Maui Shell are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Hyprland.




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.




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.

Whim is a hackable, pluggable and scriptable dynamic window manager for Windows 10 and 11, built using WinUI 3, .NET, and C# scripting.

The fastest, simplest tiler for KDE Plasma 6+ that gives you full freedom at your fingertip. No need to remember dozens of keyboard shortcuts or be limited by a fixed tile layout.



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.
