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bbLean VS Open Shell

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bbLean logo bbLean

Alternative Windows shell

Open Shell logo Open Shell

Open Shell is a fork of the Classic Shell project for Windows that getting back the classic start...
  • bbLean Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-03-31
  • Open Shell Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-02-07

bbLean videos

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Blackbox for Windows | bbLean for Windows

Open Shell videos

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Classic Menu for Windows 10 with Open Shell

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to bbLean and Open Shell)

bbLean

Open Shell

OS & Utilities
31 31%
OS & Utilities
69% 69
Note Taking
0 0%
Note Taking
100% 100
Image Optimisation
100 100%
Image Optimisation
0% 0
LMS
0 0%
LMS
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, bbLean seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

bbLean mentions (1)

  • A forgotten webpage: Stardock.com - This year in skinning (2002) - Windows XP skins
    I used to love this stuff, I had a sick bblean setup. Now I'm old and lazy and I leave everything default and make my desktop background a solid color. Source: almost 2 years ago

Open Shell mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Open Shell yet. Tracking of Open Shell recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bbLean and Open Shell, you can also consider the following products

WindowBlinds - WindowBlinds is a computer program that allows users to skin the Windows graphical user interface.

Classic Shell - Classic Shell was developed for Windows 8 since that was the first version of the popular operating system to forgo the iconic Start menu.

Cairo Shell - Cairo is a desktop environment for Windows.

StartIsBack - StartIsBack returns Windows 10 and Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7. It's totally awesome and easy solution for your new Windows woes.

Talisman Desktop - Talisman Desktop is a configurable Windows shell replacement introduced in 1997 by Lighttek...

Start Menu X - Start Menu X with Start Button. Power users know how inconvenient and time-consuming it is to launch programs from the system menu.

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