5 ms·

> For me it was just a back-to-basics move. Get of my lawn! It used to be that anyone that wanted bling and shiny things on their desktop used Enlightenment.

• viraptor 13y ago
  I think that there's a constant mismatch between how people work and how what the DE provides (with the desktop environments lagging). Years ago people looked for better DEs and shells to manage their applications easier. Now that DEs provide it finally, I have two applications left: the terminal and the browser. I can manage them myself, so I'd like my DE to just get out of the way, thank-you-very-much. (Gnome's / unity's launchers which merge the windows, windows < 8 with splittig tabs into pseudo-windows and windows 8 with... I don't even know what it is - they just do not help anymore - at least not me)
  • derefr 13y ago
    > I have two applications left: the terminal and the browser. Or, to put it another way: all your applications now use either a CLI metaphor, or a hypertext-document metaphor, with none of them left that use a native-GUI metaphor. So you boot into a native-GUI application manager, just so you can run emulators for the other two metaphors.
  • hibbelig 13y ago
    In some sense, dwm gets out of the way. http://dwm.suckless.org http://dwm.suckless.org