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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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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When it was first developed it was too heavyweight and too customisable. The effort needed to theme it was huge and a lot of the popular themes were poor from a UX point of view.

Still E16 was usable, and then the development of E17 started about 24 years ago. People are still on E16 you say?

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 day ago

i am talking about Moksha and i Meant its a fork of E17