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
  • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    24 hours ago

    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
      1·
      8 minutes ago

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

    • Mwa@thelemmy.clubOPEnglish
      5·
      23 hours 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·
      21 hours ago

      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.

      • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        20 hours 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.