Enlightenment 0.24 Alpha 1 is shipping with an improved screenshot module, support for external monitor backlight/brightness controls, an improved restart experience, a smoother start-up thanks to using an I/O pre-fetch thread, switching over to BlueZ 5 for Bluetooth, and various other changes.
Enlightenment was never a massively popular piece of software, but it seems that it has really fallen by the wayside recently. I vividly remember how 15-20 years ago, Enlightement was what you loaded up if you wanted to show off what desktop Linux could do
That phoronix link is surprisingly funny. raster (the main dev behind enlightenment) jumps into the comment section to do battle with the naysayers. I must admit I haven’t given E a second thought since… a long time ago. Before the Samsung collaboration whose name escapes me. (Tizen?)
raster’s responses are calm, solid, and worth considering. (Far better than I could do in his place.) He addresses the issues, rather than the emotions behind the issues.
In fact, his comments suggest I could give the E stuff another spin, on a much more capable desktop than that last time I tried it.
all hail eterm!!!