elementary.io
elementary OS
Who runs elementary OS, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Linux distribution alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Linux Mint
Measured from elementary OS’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit elementary OS01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs elementary OS
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What elementary OS tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
11 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 3 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
- EU company
- 1 tool
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to elementary OS
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to elementary OS, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to elementary OS match.
- 01
Home - Linux Mint
Linux Mint is an elegant, easy to use, up to date and comfortable desktop operating system.
Very close - 02
The enterprise Linux for open source innovation | Ubuntu
Ubuntu is the modern, enterprise Linux operating system for servers, desktop, cloud, and IoT. Supported for up to 15 years
Very close - 03
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 04
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 05
Flathub - Apps for Linux | Flathub
Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy Firefox, Telegram, RetroArch, GIMP and many more!
Close - 06
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 07
Open Source Software Solutions for Enterprise Servers & Cloud | SUSE
Modernize your infrastructure with SUSE Linux Enterprise servers, cloud technology for IaaS, and SUSE's software-defined storage.
Close - 08
Cygwin
Unix subsystem for Windows machines
Close - 09
openSUSE - Free Linux operating systems for desktops, servers and containers
openSUSE makes open source Linux operating systems, available for free in several flavors.
Close - 10
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 - 11
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
Close - 12
PINE64
PINE64 is a large, vibrant and diverse community and creates software, documentation and projects. Founded in 2015, it is known for affordable devices that promote user freedom.
Close - 13
Making sure you're not a bot!
BitTorrent client
Close - 14
TrueNAS | Mission-Critical Open Enterprise Storage
Transform your data estate with TrueNAS Enterprise storage appliances. Secure, scalable, high-performance data platform for every workflow.
Close - 15
F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid is the app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store, explore the world of free and open source (FOSS) apps and [learn](https://f-droid.org/about/) about our app distribution tools.
Close - 16
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
Close - 17
Parallels | Run Windows on Mac, VDI, and Enterprise Virtualization Solutions
Run Windows on Mac with Parallels, trusted by millions worldwide. Access Windows applications on Apple silicon Macs and deliver virtual apps, VDI, and secure digital workspaces.
Close - 18
Sailfish OS - European alternative for Mobile operating systems
A privacy respecting Linux-based European alternative to dominating mobile operating systems developed by Finnish company Jolla.
Close - 19
An analytical SQL database management system – DuckDB
DuckDB is a SQL OLAP database management system. Simple, feature-rich, fast & open source.
Close - 20
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles elementary OS’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones elementary OS uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what elementary OS adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,201
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 62 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to elementary OS’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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Font Awesome asset https://pro.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.15.4/css/all.css
- Analytics
- Plausible asset https://plausible.io/js/script.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:servers.mcsv.net include:_spf.google.com -all
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=4975d99c0c47bd45a24064cf2f675e9a12a41c78553312508…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ba552f97630a-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS theo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Wt2vSswSj4d8IY5yb25h3Zv39tKdRCw-gI3EZ1wZEcE
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 12/20
- Google Workspace 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on elementary.io 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on elementary.io 5/20
- Cloudflare 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on elementary.io 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on elementary.io 3/20
- Font Awesome 3/20
- nginx · not on elementary.io 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on elementary.io 3/20
- Next.js · not on elementary.io 3/20
- React · not on elementary.io 3/20
- jsDelivr · not on elementary.io 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on elementary.io 3/20
- Apple Business · not on elementary.io 3/20