Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) Alternatives

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is described as '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' and is a desktop environment in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) for a variety of platforms, including Linux, BSD, Windows, Mac and Chrome OS apps. The best Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) alternative is KDE Plasma, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) are GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon and Noctalia.

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  1. Maui Shell icon
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    Maui Shell is a convergent shell for desktops, tablets, and phones.

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    • Linux
     
  2. Phosh icon
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    Phosh is a pure Wayland shell for GNOME on mobile devices like the Purism Librem 5.

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    • Linux
    • Linux Mobile
    • GNOME
     
  3. 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

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  4. DMS icon
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    Desktop shell for wayland compositors built with Quickshell & GO, optimized for niri, hyprland, sway, MangoWC, and labwc.

    31 DMS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  5. 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

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    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
  6. DDE icon
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    DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is a Desktop Environment (DE) written in Qt for Deepin

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Deepin
     
  7. GNUstep icon
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. EDE icon
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    Equinox Desktop Environment is simple and small graphical desktop environment for UNIX operating systems

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
     
  10. 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

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    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PC-BSD
     
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    ProgwiDE - Simple and lightweight DE, made with Tk.

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    • Linux
     
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