| - **Enlightenment**: This is it, the most jibbering batshit insane environment tested. On first boot, a sequence of incredibly neurotic warnings pop up for things ranging from ACPI stepping revision of your motherboard to the notification that ethernet, in fact, still exists. The launcher icons violently explode continuously at you if you so much as hover over them. Right click menu includes an option ominously labeled "Run everything". I mentioned using it to a friend, and he replied "Oh, you don't know about the Enlightenment guy? He's nuts" and linked me [[https://discord.com/channels/@me/446467085317701662/1197371852696322078|this article]], which states, among many things, that every interaction is based on the casting of void* pointers. I never thought I could look at a GUI and //feel// the pointer casting, but here, you can. | - **Enlightenment**: This is it, the most jibbering batshit insane environment tested. On first boot, a sequence of incredibly neurotic warnings pop up for things ranging from ACPI stepping revision of your motherboard to the notification that ethernet, in fact, still exists. The launcher icons violently explode continuously at you if you so much as hover over them. Right click menu includes an option ominously labeled "Run everything". I mentioned using it to a friend, and he replied "Oh, you don't know about the Enlightenment guy? He's nuts" and linked me [[https://web.archive.org/web/20250103001521/https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened|this article]], which states, among many things, that every interaction is based on the casting of void* pointers. I never thought I could look at a GUI and //feel// the pointer casting, but here, you can. |
