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It looks quite usable, to be honest. I would have loved to use it back then.

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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.

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I really enjoyed the diversity of WM/DE back then, and the innovation when new ones like Enlightenment were released!

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Text rendering sure has come a long way. Those topic links look absolutely horrendous.

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Well also, 1024x768 was wicked sweet at the time

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I ran Storm Linux for a short while in about… 2001-2002. Got it on a CD in a misc pack of disks from some Linux distro vendor.

It was supposed to be a server oriented distro, secured more than others, and ran Enlightenment for a desktop. Overall, it was a reasonable distro, but didn’t gain enough general support and devs to keep it up and running. The group behind it folded after a short while.

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Do you ever miss something you’ve never had?

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I ran enlightenment for a long time. It was great.

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If there was an updated version these days i’d be fully inclined to run it, haven’t followed the project in more than a decade though

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