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why didnt Enlightenment desktop recieve much adoption (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi lemmy So i was curious why Enlightenment didn't recieve much adoption in the Linux Desktop. (especially for a fully featured lightweight wayland DE)
Ik Bodhi Linux uses Enlightenment, but it's more of Moksha rather then using Enlightenment

Cause

  • Lighter then LXQT
  • Somewhat customizable

But I can see people not liking it cause.

  • the ui(especially for windows users)
  • Hard to find themes due to it using its own toolkit
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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Enlightenment has been around for decades, and it was quite a bit more popular in its early days because things like KDE/Gnome/etc weren't the de facto DEs pretty much everyone used like they are now. I used it back when I had a linux box like 25 years ago and it was great, it was very slick and pretty, but now so much is written for KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago*

    alr thank you this makes soo much sense Now

    KDE/Gnome that it feels like using anything else is just asking for trouble.

    I agree espically for stuff like Good Wayland Support,VRR,etc

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just look at Tizan from Samsung all built on EFL (enlightenment foundation libs), EFL does not have many bindings with other languages and it’s “100% written in C”. The enlightenment OS is super customizable and written in its own component library based on OpenGL they call EGL. It’s a fantastic WM and hopefully Wayland version gets better.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gnome is pretty well integrated with everything, especially with extensions to make up for less features in stock gnome than kde.

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