What, exactly, is “Woke Software”? Glad you asked. Because I’ve defined it.

Simple, right?
I’m sure we can all think of some examples. Mozilla Firefox, NixOS, Godot, and a whole mountain of others.
But what about… Non-Woke Software? You know… software which doesn’t hate you for being a normal person?
Luckily there is a growing number of decidedly Non-Woke options. And, even better, some of them are truly outstanding. Below I have collected my personal favorites as of August of 2025.
Operating Systems
Multiple Non-Woke Linux Distributions (and even a few BSD options) are available.
OpenMandriva - A classic Linux distribution.
GhostBSD - A FreeBSD based distro focused on usability.
Omarchy - An Arch + Hyprland configuration.
Devuan - A fork of Debian without SystemD.
I can personally vouch for the quality of all of those options. They are all unique and worth taking for a test-drive.
My personal favorite? OpenMandriva.
Web Browsers
As of right now, there are two web browsers I can recommend.
Brave - A Chromium based browser focused on privacy and ad blocking.
Ladybird - A from-scratch browser (not yet usable for a daily driver).
Though, honestly, only Brave is truly usable, right now, as a daily driver. But Ladybird is making such rapid progress that it seems worth including in this list to keep an eye on.
E-Mail Clients
If you’re looking for a desktop Email client, there’s really only one noteworthy option at the moment.
Betterbird - A fork of Mozilla Thunderbird.
While Betterbird has not made a point of being Non-Woke, they are a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird. And Mozilla is the king of Open Source Wokeness.
Other Software
Here’s a few Non-Woke pieces of software which just don’t fit in the other categories. Hopefully, as the quantity of decidedly Non-Woke, quality software grows, we’ll have enough to add a few additional categories.
Redot - A fork of the Godot game engine.
XLibre - A fork of the Xorg X11 Server.
Hyprland - A Wayland window manager / Desktop Environment.
SQLite - A small, fast SQL database engine.
Once again, all quality, recommended software.
While this list may not be a mile long, it’s growing — and many of these projects are seeing significant success. Which is pretty fantastic.