Wow, that looks amazing! How does running a browser like Firefox work on this? Just runs a window regularly?
EDIT: never mind, just noticed that eDEX is not maintained since 2021 :(
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There seem to be several maintained forks:
https://github.com/andreas-hartmann/xdex-ui
https://github.com/theelderemo/eDEX-UI-security-patched
https://github.com/matu6968/edex-ui
I mean...if you just want a text-based working environment, there are plenty, but nothing as a full DE that I'm aware for a number of reasons.
I think VTM is the one that is most like what you posted, but there are also other terminal environments that act similar to eDEX, but I would lump more in the IDE category.
I think there's one based off of the Star Trek computer system lcars.
I would love to see something like this as well.
Nothing all self contained like that but you can replicate it with most tiling window managers, a few terminal anpps, and some configurations.