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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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[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I used it when I used arch linux on a PC with 4GB RAM and an HDD. Enlightenment loaded up in no time compared to even sway, looked pretty and had quite a few features like not terminating session if there are open apps and wallpapers per workspace! Its native apps like file manager and terminology were also extremely snappy. Using E apps felt like I had an NVME instead of HDD and I felt like I had a full desktop instead of a minimalistic WM without sacrificing speed. Switched away when I got a PC with good specs overall & a real NVME and iirc the desktop was crashing every now and then on the new PC. The default UI is very weird, you need to place most of the app icons by yourself and I think pressing Meta doesn't invoke the app launcher? Also I cannot start E with wayland currently, I could on v0.21.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I cannot start E with wayland currently, I could on v0.21.

I tried E on Wayland before had the same issue i thought it was cause my Setup (I was using QEMU/KVM with distro Cachyos installed to test it )