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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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[–] QuizzaciousOtter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This is what always comes to my mind when someone mentions Enlightenment: https://web.archive.org/web/20230424121033/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened. Might provide some answers too.

Enlightenment window manager is the most beautiful desktop ever made and rasterman is an artistic genius

[–] Sinfaen@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago

holy bejeezus, I would not go anywhere near that. Qt is not a programmer's dream but it's a hell of a lot better

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i've seen this story being posted so many times over the years and every time it's such a good read

Yes! I actually couldn't resist reading it again when posting it.

[–] wazoobi@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

Good Lord... I thought I had seen some shit, but everything is a void*?

Thank you for that horrible read that I've gotta share with some friends lol

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So the other reason is EFL is hard to work with i see,If so why does Samsung use it Oh well.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Sunk cost fallacy