Sunday, July 11, 2021

Alternative Desktop Shell for Windows

Windows shell from Microsoft is not the only desktop shell available for Windows. You might wish to try the alternative Desktop Shell for Windows like Cairo Desktop, Blackbox for Windows (xoblite), etc. These shells provides their own start menu, taskbar, desktop, an overall different experience while using Windows. For those who would like to try out if using a different shell increases your productivity or not, this could be the time to check those out.

Here are the links for two choices mentioned above that were found to be working in Windows 10 at the time of writing this blog post.

Cairo Desktop 
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Blackbox for Windows (xoblite)

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Can anyone suggest alternatives that are in active development?


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2 comments:

Unknown said...

Sir, currently using Cairo Shell. It's very user friendly. Thank you!

Superxwolf said...

Currently working on my own shell: https://github.com/Superxwolf/Uphany_Shell