EDE: Small and Fast Desktop Environment
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·November 14, 2025edoceo
Wow! This looks like XP/Win2k. Gotta put this on the parents computer, they'll be happy they got their old Windows back. (They don't really like Xfce)
ikamm
The Q4OS distro has an addon called XPQ4 which has some old Windows themes https://xpq4.sourceforge.io/
skerit
I like these kind of themes in theory, but they're always a bit janky. Not that they have to be pixel perfect, but they're always broken enough that they're not a pleasure to use.
29athrowaway
Maybe they like LXQt more.
XFCE can be themed to be almost identical to XP.
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mghackerlady
theres a windows 9x total conversion out there iirc
packetlost
I don't think it's complete but I have that mostly set up with LXQT on NixOS on my Framework desktop. I love it
wild_egg
Chicago95 theme for XFCE is great
a96
> EDE (Equinox Desktop Environment) is a simple and fast desktop environment for *nix-like systems. It uses the FLTK GUI toolkit and offers a familiar look and feel. EDE is designed according to the UNIX philosophy, which means it offers seperate executables for each component to “do one job and do it good”. This makes EDE very modular and also easy to alter for any user's special needs and requirements.
TIHI, but I can definitely see places where this would be useful. Based on the name, I thought it was just Enlightenment/E rebrand or something.
WD-42
Very cool! Love the crystal icon set. I remember when that was first released, it was mind blowing.
GaryBluto
Funny this should be posted. I was just considering this for a Boot CD project a few months ago.
WillAdams
Any chance of an rPi image?
woleium
i imagine it’s trivial to install on raspian?
a96
https://edeproject.org/wiki/binarypackages Don't see anything for ARM, but might be as simple as getting the source package and (de)building debs for it.
analog8374
I like the look of this. It looks like mate, which I presently use. I wonder what the difference is
BirAdam
Well, FLTK instead of GTK is a big one. Also, EDE more closely mimics the Win98 Explorer rather than GNOME. EDE is also lighter weight.
analog8374
Have we arrived at where everybody knows what a desktop environment should look like?
I mean, an end to experiments and variants and improvements. We all know how it should be and anything else is wrong.
I would like that.
seanhunter
Different people want different things because they use computers in different ways. That's ok.
I personally am very happy with my sway setup - it works fantastically for me but most people would honestly hate it. That's ifne - I wouldn't force anyone else to use it.
I tried to search their wiki for wayland, but got zero hits so I guess this is for X11 only?
Edit: nevermind, I see this is relatively "ancient" software. Last release over 10 years ago :)
Will take it for a spin on an old computer though