Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Enlightenment

The 20 closest desktop environment software alternatives to Enlightenment, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Enlightenment? The closest matches are GNOME, freedesktop.org and Cygwin. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Enlightenment

Enlightenment enlightenment.org

Enlightenment Main

Wikidata: window manager for Unix-like operating systems

Top 10K · #4,811 English 3 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Enlightenment

Summary by Claude

Project site for Enlightenment, a free and open-source window manager, compositor and minimal desktop for Linux and BSD, along with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) toolkit and a suite of desktop applications built on it.

Who it’s for
Linux and BSD users and developers
Business model
None (open-source project)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Enlightenment’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

GNULinux kernelCanvaKDEMoodleRustDeskOllamaCygwinfreedesktop.orgGNOME

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Enlightenment

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Enlightenment, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    GNOME gnome.org Top 10K

    desktop environment and graphical user interface

  2. 02
    freedesktop.org Top 10K English

    Checking you are not a bot

    open-source desktop environment software project

  3. 03
    Cygwin cygwin.com Top 10K English

    Cygwin

    Unix subsystem for Windows machines

  4. 04
    Ollama ollama.com Top 10K

    Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud

    Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

  5. 05
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions

    RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

  6. 06
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

  7. 07
    Moodle moodle.org Top 10K

    Moodle challenge

    e-learning platform

  8. 08
    KDE kde.org Top 10K English

    Home - KDE Community

    KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.

  9. 09
    tizen.org Top 10K
  10. 10
    Canva canva.com Top 1K English

    Canva

    online graphic design platform

  11. 11
    Blender blender.org Top 10K English

    Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org

    The Freedom to Create

  12. 12
    doxygen.org Top 10K English

    Doxygen homepage

    Source code documentation and analysis tool

  13. 13
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

  14. 14
    Bitwarden bitwarden.com Top 10K English

    Best Password Manager for Business, Enterprise & Personal | Bitwarden | Bitwarden

    Bitwarden is the trusted, open source password manager for individuals, teams, and enterprises. Securely store, share, and manage passwords, passkeys, and secrets. Free to start.

  15. 15
    getcomposer.org Top 10K English

    Composer

    A Dependency Manager for PHP

  16. 16
    GNU gnu.org Top 1K English

    The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement

    Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.

  17. 17
    How-To Geek howtogeek.com Top 10K English

    How-To Geek - We Explain Technology

    We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.

  18. 18
    Hugging Face huggingface.co Top 10K

    Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.

    We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

  19. 19
    VideoLAN videolan.org Top 10K English

    VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN

    VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!

  20. 20
    Gentoo Linux gentoo.org Top 10K English

    Welcome – Gentoo Linux

    The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to enlightenment.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Enlightenment uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Enlightenment is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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