I tried it once like 5 years ago (hope thats recent enough lol), when I heard that they have per monitor virtual desktops.
But I was missing so many KDE Plasma features that I loved, that I just had to go back. I don’t remember exactly which features though.
@Deckweiss
Makes sense. I think I would also miss some if I switched.Per monitor virtual desktops is really cool though.
Windows 11 covers that workflow even better now with a feature called window grouping. I think I’ll need to write a kwin plugin or something for that…
sorry for the offtopic rant, but thats the major thing which comes to mind when somebody mentions enlightenment!
@Deckweiss
I didn’t know about that feature in Windows 11 even though I use it on my work laptop but I guess it’s because I only use the laptop’s screen when I work 😂I think it’s even better on a single monitor when you have a lot of windows open.
It puts multiple windows into a group, so you only see one entry in the taskbar. When you click that, all the grouped windows get minimized/madimized.
I used it on the work laptop as well. And just grouped my different sub workflows, each of which had 2-3 windows.
That way I could switch the task without juggling multiple windows.
@Deckweiss
Interesting. I should check it out. Thanks for the suggestion
This brings back some memories from years ago. Enlightenment was fairly popular at some point and I think the author “Rasterman” was employed at RedHat. Some Linux distribution may even have had it as the default ?
Ive never stopped, just recently did my first nixos build with enlightenment. Had an old XPS with 4k screen works nicely. I like the reenlightened theme
@REdOG
Have you tested the Wayland implementation of Enlightenment?No, I guess Wayland is kind of on my to-do list…I just don’t need anything it offers. I’m grumpily enough implementing systemd already
@REdOG
I see. Well for me too, Xorg offered all the features I need and is still more well supported than Wayland in some areas, but on my system Wayland has so much better performance. On Xorg I was having mouse lags, on Wayland it’s just smooth.
I have tried it a few times but I could never really get into it. For one thing, it is a tiny island unto itself where most of what you need to run is foreign to it.
In the end, I found light-weight GTK and Qt options superior.
Based on some Lemmy comments, I tried Q4OS with the Trinity desktop ( basically KDE 3 ) and I was surprised how good it was. I used the 32 bit edition but it booted to a full GUI desktop in something like 110 MB and it was surprisingly usable. I guess I should not be too shocked. MATE is essentially GNOME 2 from the same era and, though not my favourite, it is still fine.
Perhaps the viability of Linux as a desktop has had more to do with the applications than the desktop itself.
