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mrweasel 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

> It’s themable, hackable, lightweight

Certainly wasn't considered lightweight back then :-)

I never saw the appeal of Enlightenment, but a very nice write-up regardless.

drooopy 3 months ago [–]

No kidding. Last time I used Enlightenment back in the late 90s, both KDE 1.x and GNOME 1.x were orders of magnitude more usable on my lowly Pentium MMX 166 with 16 MB of RAM.

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