Top 6 Open-Source Alternatives to Raspberry Pi Desktop (aka PIXEL)

Product categories

Desktop Environments Health And Fitness Linux Meditation Open Source Operating Systems Sleep Utilities Window Manager

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Raspberry Pi Desktop (aka PIXEL) are i3, Arcan, and Xmonad. 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.

i3 Landing Page
1

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
Arcan Landing Page
2

Arcan

Game engine and multimedia framework and display server.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Desktop Environments #Operating Systems 15 social mentions
Xmonad Landing Page
3

Xmonad

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Window Manager #Linux #Utilities 14 social mentions
Sway Landing Page
4

Sway

Sway is a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager, but for Wayland instead of X11.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Health And Fitness #Meditation #Sleep 52 social mentions
GNUstep Landing Page
5

GNUstep

GNUstep is a mature Framework, suited both for advanced GUI desktop applications as well as server...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Linux #Window Manager #Desktop Environments 2 social mentions
qtile Landing Page
6

qtile

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