The Best 17 CDE (Common Desktop Environment) Alternatives

  • GNOME icon

    GNOME

    The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the...

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Xfce icon

    Xfce

    Xfce (pronounced as four individual letters) is a free software desktop environment for Unix and other Unix-like platforms, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Cinnamon icon

    Cinnamon

    cinnamon is a linux desktop which provides advanced innovative features and a traditional user experience. the desktop layout is similar to gnome 2. the underlying technology is forked from gnome shell.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • MATE icon

    MATE

    many users of gnome 2 dislike gnome 3. mate is a fork of the good old gnome 2. it provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for linux and other unix-like operating systems.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD FreeBSD OpenIndiana GhostBSD

  • LXDE icon

    LXDE

    the "lightweight x11 desktop environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Enlightenment icon

    Enlightenment

    Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • LXQt icon

    LXQt

    lxqt is the qt port and the upcoming version of lxde, the lightweight desktop environment. it is the product of the merge between the lxde-qt and the https://alternativein .

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Budgie icon

    Budgie

    Budgie is the flagship desktop of the Solus OS and is part of the Solus Project. Designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Cairo Shell icon

    Cairo Shell

    Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows. Its goal is to develop a desktop experience that increases productivity and advances current technology standards.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Lumina Desktop Environment icon

    Lumina Desktop Environment

    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

    Free Open Source Linux BSD PC-BSD

  • Emerge Desktop icon

    Emerge Desktop

    Emerge Desktop is a replacement Windows "shell" (the desktop environment normally provided by Windows Explorer) for Windows 2000 and above. In order to replace...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • EDE icon

    EDE

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

    Free Open Source Linux BSD Solaris

  • Elokab icon

    Elokab

    elokab desktop environment is an open-source independent desktop environment for linux which uses qt libraries like kde .

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Bluetile icon

    Bluetile

    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...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Moksha icon

    Moksha

    Fork of Enlightenment version 17 (commonly called E17) used as the main desktop environment on Bodhi Linux Installing Moksha Requirements: ------------- ...

    Free Open Source Linux