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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This is what always comes to my mind when someone mentions Enlightenment: https://web.archive.org/web/20230424121033/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened. Might provide some answers too.
i’ve seen this story being posted so many times over the years and every time it’s such a good read
Yes! I actually couldn’t resist reading it again when posting it.
Good Lord… I thought I had seen some shit, but everything is a void*?
Thank you for that horrible read that I’ve gotta share with some friends lol
So the other reason is EFL is hard to work with i see,If so why does Samsung use it Oh well.
Sunk cost fallacy
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.
Gnome is pretty well integrated with everything, especially with extensions to make up for less features in stock gnome than kde.
Yeah I tried gnome for a little bit on a previous Pop install and didn’t like it as much so I went with KDE when I switched to Nobara.
Gnome is a bit of a different animal these days, I get it that it won’t fit everyone’s use case.
Development was so slow that the project was effectively dead after E16, users moved on.
I checked wikipedia and it took 13 years for E17 to release so makes sense ngl
As someone who loved it, this was it. We waited forever for the next release which promised a full desktop environment, it never happened, we moved on to stuff that actually existed. I understand there IS ongoing development and even forks, but i frankly have no idea how is it these days. If i found out you can just apt-get a full E-based DE tomorrow i would definitely consider dedicating time to test it, specially if it’s still considered to be among the lightest, because man, when it was at it’s best it was very much the promise of a Hollywood Hacker style desktop, it was awesome and you could do nearly everything on the keyboard, plus it had a gazillion themes.
