Enlightenment was such a cool window manager. Shame the development pace was (and still is) slow and it never really took off.
I love seeing these screenshots of old Linux distributions as it makes me realize how much things have improved.
I’m just a consumer but I really appreciate the work everyone has done and I ain’t going back to Windows anymore.
That was probably close to one of the last versions of enlightenment I used regularly. It was such a fun WM to use at the time. If I remember correctly, GNOME and KDE were really ramping up about then and e fell behind.
TRANSPARENT TERMINALS! Haha it felt so futuristic and to this day I can’t run a terminal without a little transparency. Enlightenment was my first experience of it.
It looks quite usable, to be honest. I would have loved to use it back then.
E was one of the best. They even created their own sound subsystem, ESD, which became the de facto default for Linux desktop sound for quite a while.
Text rendering sure has come a long way. Those topic links look absolutely horrendous.
Well also, 1024x768 was wicked sweet at the time
I ran enlightenment for a long time. It was great.
