material-shell
A modern desktop interface for Linux. Improve your user experience and get rid of the anarchy of traditional desktop workflows. Designed to simplify navigation and reduce the need to manipulate windows in order to improve productivity. It's meant to be 100% predictable and bring the benefits of tools coveted by professionals to everyone. (by material-shell)
winapps
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. (by Fmstrat)
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| material-shell | winapps | |
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| 46 | 292 | |
| 7,224 | 7,908 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 5.4 | 2.7 | |
| 5 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| TypeScript | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | - |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
material-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of material-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I really want https://material-shell.com/ for MacOS
it was perfect for using a single monitor
kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place
I keep getting annoyed at alt+tab because I accidentally clicked on another window and now the order is messed up
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Kera Desktop: A brand-new desktop environment in the development
I'm confused. How does that work? Is it like a GNOME extension or something; similar to how Material Shell works?
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Vanilla OS 2.0 Orchid base is changing from Ubuntu to Debian
check this gnome plugin https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell
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How many of you use your gnu/linux distro without much customization?
I don't know too much about that. You can achieve a lot with gnome extensions. And if you'd like to build your own and see what's possible, check out the source code of Material Shell
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I'm a tiling WM user but the concept of the scrolling window managers were new to me. This idea might be experimental but using it was fun. If you want to try it, CardBoard is a good start. I had fun using it for a couple of days and thought it's good to share it with you too.
Website: https://material-shell.com/
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do any tiling extensions work on Gnome 44?
Material Shell has Gnome 44 support: https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell/releases/tag/44
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An easy-to-learn Linux Window Manager
But you might want to try out Gnome first, with one of the many tiling extensions, or perhaps Material Shell for a Tiling like WM experience
- What is the best tilling window manager?
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Considering Switching from Pop_OS!
Has anyone used Material Shell? It looks like it will do the tiling for me.
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Can't install Gnome Shell Extensions
Hi, I'm working on Ubuntu 22.04.1 with Gnome 42.5. I used to be able to install shell extensions just fine with the Chrome extension. However (I think since (un)installing the Material Shell Extension), I can't install any extension anymore, not via the Chrome extension, not via the terminal (`gnome-extensions install -f ...`). In the browser, the switch is available and clickable, but nothing simply happens. Via the terminal, no feedback at all is given. When going over the [source code](https://github.com/material-shell/material-shell) of the material shell, it seems that it tampers with some extensions and God knows what else... Via `dconf` I had to enable the allowance of extensions (`disable-user-extensions`), also something Material Shell probably did. I uninstalled Material Shell according to the docs, but of course, not everything is undone...
winapps
Posts with mentions or reviews of winapps.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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What are some of your favorite Linux apps that you use
This one might be controversial, but Winapps for Linux, app that lets run apps from within a Windows KVM as if it were native on your Linux system (https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps)
- Idk what to do 😭
- How viable is it to use a Windows Virtual Machine in Linux?
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Does Visual Studio 2022 exist on Arch Linux?
Yes but you have to run visual studios in a windows virtual machine qemu/kvm/virtmanager Then pass virtual studio window to your desktop so it runs like it is native https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps optional Then use winapps to make a desktop and application launcher menu entry/icon
- STOP USING WINE. DARE
- Should I switch to Linux as a guitarist?
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Working/Switching seamlessly between Linux and Windows - Ideas?
There's something called winapps which works over RDP, but you better have good specs so you get good performance. I recommend using parsec with a VM if you can passthrough a seperate GPU otherwise. https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps
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Running Windows VM in virtualized OpenSUSE = black screen
The aim of this exercise was to test run WinApps (https://github.com/Fmstrat/winapps).
- Want to use Linux, but forced to use Office 365. Any workarounds?
- Any news from the past 6 months?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing material-shell and winapps you can also consider the following projects:
PaperWM - Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell
wine
titus-awesome - Custom AwesomeWM Theme
cassowary - Run Windows Applications on Linux as if they are native, Use linux applications to launch files files located in windows vm without needing to install applications on vm. With easy to use configuration GUI
i3-gnome - Use i3wm/i3-gaps with GNOME Session infrastructure.
ArchWSL - ArchLinux based WSL Distribution. Supports multiple install.
gnome-gesture-improvements - Touchpad gesture improvements for GNOME on Wayland/X11
Awesome-Linux-Software - 🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
forge - Forge - Tiling and Window Manager for Gnome-Shell [Moved to: https://github.com/forge-ext/forge]
lutris - Lutris desktop client
Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 37 [Moved to: https://github.com/devangshekhawat/Fedora-37-Post-Install-Guide]
waydroid - Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu.
material-shell vs PaperWM
winapps vs wine
material-shell vs titus-awesome
winapps vs cassowary
material-shell vs i3-gnome
winapps vs ArchWSL
material-shell vs gnome-gesture-improvements
winapps vs Awesome-Linux-Software
material-shell vs forge
winapps vs lutris
material-shell vs Fedora-36-Post-Install-Guide
winapps vs waydroid