Has anyone tried the #Enlightenment DE for #Linux in the recent years?

Anders Rytter Hansen@theres.life to Linux@lemmy.ml – 40 points –

Has anyone tried the #Enlightenment DE for #Linux in the recent years?

How was the experience?

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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.