On Friday 01 December 2023 13:18:15 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote:
Anno domini 2023 Fri, 1 Dec 12:42:49 -0800
William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
Has anybody else tried out these other lightweight DEs, Lumina and Enlightenment? Just wondering, but I doubt I can be tempted away from TDE's beauty and simplicity.
I tried Enligtenment in the 90's, at that time it was basicly the only WM that had a skulls and bone theme as window decoration. Just imagine, not staight window borders, but irregular! Well, it was the classic "eyecandy but no function" problem. Just as Windowmaker (not on the list) and GNOME ...
Nik
Yeah, I just took a virtual tour, and have seen enough. Along with the not-quite-totally-free license, those other guys just look like XFCE or LXDE redone with some new branding. Nothing substantial there to bother about.
And as for Q4OS and other OS choices, I will stick with Devuan, or some other Debian-type OS. It might be that in the future Devuan goes the same way as Debian, but I feel sure that there will always be a fork made by users who want to keep what works best for them.
Once I got to this place (the perfect combination of OS and DE), I never could see a reason to change.
Bill