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
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.
alr thank you this makes soo much sense Now
I agree espically for stuff like Good Wayland Support,VRR,etc
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.
Not disputing that it’s good, it’s just so much stuff is built to work with KDE or Gnome that I think you’d miss out on using E.