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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Enlightenment
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Enlightenment, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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open-source desktop environment software project
Very close cos 0.895 - 02 Close cos 0.892
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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.
Close cos 0.884 - 04
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Close cos 0.883 - 05
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.
Close cos 0.879 - 06
Canva
online graphic design platform
Close cos 0.879 - 07
Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
The Freedom to Create
Close cos 0.875 - 08
Doxygen homepage
Source code documentation and analysis tool
Close cos 0.876 - 09
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Close cos 0.876 - 10
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.
Close cos 0.875 - 11
Composer
A Dependency Manager for PHP
Close cos 0.875 - 12
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.
Close cos 0.874 - 13
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.
Close cos 0.877 - 14
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS! - VideoLAN
VLC: Official site - Free multimedia solutions for all OS!
Close cos 0.871 - 15
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Close cos 0.872 - 16
Java | Oracle
Get started with Java today
Close cos 0.870 - 17
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Close cos 0.873 - 18
Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation
The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …
Close cos 0.870 - 19
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Close cos 0.872 - 20
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Close cos 0.874
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.
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://www.enlightenment.org/lib/tpl/e/js/bootstrap.min.js
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.66 (Debian)
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Enlightenment adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on enlightenment.org 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on enlightenment.org 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on enlightenment.org 9/20
- nginx · not on enlightenment.org 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on enlightenment.org 6/20
- Amazon SES · not on enlightenment.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on enlightenment.org 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on enlightenment.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server 3/20
- Apple Business · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- OpenAI · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- jQuery · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- PHP · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- WordPress · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- Stripe · not on enlightenment.org 3/20