Cairo Shell Alternatives

KDE Plasma

Plasma is a cross-device work environment by the KDE Community where trust is put on the user's capacity to best define their own workflow and preferences.

Features:

• Customizable
• Blurry transparency
• Desktop Environment
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Full text search
• Lightweight
• Optimized for Fastboot mode

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. It aims to be...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
• Modular System
• Desktop Environment

LXDE

The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment.

Features:

• Lightweight
• Desktop Environment
• X server

VirtuaWin

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7/Win10). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize...

Finder

The Finder is the default file manager and graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems.

Features:

• File management
• File transfer
• Support for FTP
• Miller columns
• Support for WebDAV

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...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Desktop Environment

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...

Features:

• Lightweight
• Desktop Environment
• X server

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.

bbLean

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. ...