Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to GNOME

Product categories

Advance Users Desktop Environments IDE IDEs And Text Editors Linux Linux Distribution Open Source Operating Systems Software Development Text Editors Utilities Window Manager

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to GNOME are Notepad++, Geany, and CotEditor. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Notepad++ Landing Page
1

Notepad++

A free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions
Geany Landing Page
2

Geany

Lightweight IDE for Linux and Windows
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 5 social mentions
CotEditor Landing Page
3

CotEditor

Open Source Plain-Text Editor for OS X
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 25 social mentions
i3 Landing Page
4

i3

A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Open Source 89 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
5

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
Arcan Landing Page
6

Arcan

Game engine and multimedia framework and display server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Desktop Environments #Operating Systems 15 social mentions
Pulsar Editor Landing Page
7

Pulsar Editor

A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, built on Electron. and based on everything we love about our favorite editors.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 8 social mentions
Ubuntu Landing Page
8

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Debian Linux-based open source operating system for desktop computers.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 229 social mentions
Micro Landing Page
9

Micro

Modern terminal-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 76 social mentions
qtile Landing Page
10

qtile

Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written in Python.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 6 social mentions
Lumina Desktop Environment Landing Page
11

Lumina Desktop Environment

Lumina is a lightweight, BSD licensed, standards-compliant desktop environment based upon Qt and...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Operating Systems #Desktop Environments 6 social mentions
Arch Linux Landing Page
12

Arch Linux

You've reached the website for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. Currently we have official packages optimized for the x86-64 architecture.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Linux Distribution #Operating Systems 256 social mentions