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So I have to ask - I'm experimenting with Enlightenment on !Ubuntu, and it seems quite modern and sleek. Why'd it fade into obscurity?
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Because nobody uses it, and because it's very drastically different from a normal environment and people get tired of it
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@marcusharrison Not sure exactly, but it might be due to the slow Enlightenment development over the years.
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@marcusharrison The last Enlightenment release was a decade ago. Go a decade with no new releases, and people stop paying attention
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@maco Really? The wikipedia page says E16 was released 5 months ago as, "stable" - is that different to, "Enlightenment"?
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@marcusharrison the 7th update to E16 was released around that time. E16 was released in 2000. E17 has been in alpha for the last decade.
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@maco ... Wow. So it's basically turned into KDE 2/3: same stuff, just updated incrementally?
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@marcusharrison 16 has barely changed at all. I suspect 1.0.7 is just bugfixes. 17 is pretty (and what screenshots tend to show) but alpha
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@marcusharrison Their stable version is litteraly ancient and I've been waiting for E17-stable from before the first of my 3 kids was born!
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