enlightenment.org
Enlightenment
Who runs Enlightenment, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest desktop environment software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- xfce.org
Measured from Enlightenment’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Enlightenment01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Enlightenment
Enlightenment enlightenment.org
Wikidata: window manager for Unix-like operating systems
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Enlightenment 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.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Enlightenment
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Enlightenment, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Very close - 02
desktop environment and graphical user interface
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
LXQt - The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment
The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment
Very close - 05
Cygwin
Unix subsystem for Windows machines
Very close - 06 freedesktop.org Top 10K
open-source desktop environment software project
Very close - 07
xorg
graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems
Very close - 08
GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot | Nomic
Run open-source AI models locally on your device. GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI with no cloud required—your data stays on your machine.
Very close - 09
Podman
daemonless OCI-compliant container runtime
Very close - 10
Manjaro – The Linux for People and Organizations
This page provides an overview of Manjaro Linux, an open source operating system designed for ease of use. Learn about its features, installation, and support options. Get the most out of Manjaro Linux with the latest news, downloads, and tips from our helpful community.
Very close - 11
Home · MPC-HC
MPC-HC, the free, open source media player for Windows
Very close - 12
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Very close - 13
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Very close - 14 Very close
- 15
mpv.io
a free, open source, and cross-platform media player
Very close - 16
Proxmox - Powerful open-source server solutions
Proxmox develops powerful and efficient open-source server solutions like the Proxmox VE platform, Proxmox Backup Server, and Proxmox Mail Gateway.
Very close - 17
Flathub - Apps for Linux | Flathub
Find and install hundreds of apps and games for Linux. Enjoy Firefox, Telegram, RetroArch, GIMP and many more!
Very close - 18
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.
Very close - 19
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.
Very close - 20
JSR: the JavaScript Registry
JSR is the open-source package registry for modern JavaScript. JSR natively supports TypeScript, and works with all JS runtimes and package managers.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Enlightenment’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Enlightenment 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 Enlightenment 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 · 3 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 24 ms
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). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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)
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on enlightenment.org 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on enlightenment.org 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on enlightenment.org 6/20
- nginx · not on enlightenment.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on enlightenment.org 4/20
- Fastly · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- Google Workspace · not on enlightenment.org 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server 2/20
- Matomo · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- Next.js · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- React · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- PHP · not on enlightenment.org 2/20
- Apple Business · not on enlightenment.org 2/20