gnome.org
GNOME
Who runs GNOME, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Linux desktop environment alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- xfce.org
Measured from GNOME’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs GNOME
GNOME gnome.org
Wikidata: desktop environment and graphical user interface
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What GNOME tracks
We couldn’t read gnome.org’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to GNOME
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GNOME, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read gnome.org’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 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
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 - 03
Enlightenment Main
window manager for Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 04
LXQt - The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment
The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment
Close - 05 freedesktop.org Top 10K
open-source desktop environment software project
Very close - 06
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 07
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 08
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 - 09 Very close
- 10
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 11
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 12
xorg
graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems
Close - 13
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 14
The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
Very close - 15
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Very close - 16
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 17
Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack
Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Very close - 18 Very close
- 19
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing ⋅ elementary OS
Thoughtful, capable, and ethical computing
Close - 20
Fedora Linux | The Fedora Project
An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers, built with love by you.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles GNOME’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones GNOME 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 GNOME 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 · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 42 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GNOME’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
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80787754
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=CERH6P8oe_jgCNAsVY7ZnHJba1Csf2hHJ779kJPtXKA
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 13/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on gnome.org 8/20
- nginx · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Google Fonts · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on gnome.org 4/20
- Matomo · not on gnome.org 2/20
- Fastly · not on gnome.org 2/20
- Plausible · not on gnome.org 2/20
- jQuery · not on gnome.org 2/20
- jsDelivr · not on gnome.org 2/20
- SendGrid · not on gnome.org 2/20