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Enlightenment E16, circa 2000, with the Bluesteel theme

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn this brings back some good memories. Except I was a fluxbox guy on my Slackware install...back when you had to compile damn near everything from scratch.

Good times...good times...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fluxbox on gentoo myself, but otherwise, yeah.

[–] infinitypunk 2 points 1 year ago

lmao nice. oldschool. I'm enjoying KDE Manjaro currently, VM's for others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah enlightenment... memories

[–] mbgid 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, seeing a screenshot of Enlightenment back in 1998 was what made me try Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm chasing this aesthetic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of my heavy afterstep usage. I always kept gkrellm on deck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beautiful. Symmetrical. 90° angles. Every window has a strict purpose. No fancy animations. No popups. No bullshit.

[–] mbgid 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how every terminal window has a different background image set ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed. I prefer light blue on black, though. Actually, I designed my whole system with that in mind.

I'm a minimalist guy liking minimalist things. But everything has to be equal and symmetrical.