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why didnt Enlightenment desktop recieve much adoption (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Mwa@thelemmy.club 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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[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 day ago (3 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.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 minutes ago

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.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago

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.