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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Happened to me last weekend. I made a backup because I was going to wipe out linux temporarily. I decided to backup with timeshift instead of my typical rsync -aAXH because having a GUI was nice. Timeshift refused to restore the backup. It first complained about my subvolume layout, when I made it happy it restored all my files then promptly deleted them. Fortunately backup is just rsync so I restored with rsync.









  • I used it when I used arch linux on a PC with 4GB RAM and an HDD. Enlightenment loaded up in no time compared to even sway, looked pretty and had quite a few features like not terminating session if there are open apps and wallpapers per workspace! Its native apps like file manager and terminology were also extremely snappy. Using E apps felt like I had an NVME instead of HDD and I felt like I had a full desktop instead of a minimalistic WM without sacrificing speed. Switched away when I got a PC with good specs overall & a real NVME and iirc the desktop was crashing every now and then on the new PC. The default UI is very weird, you need to place most of the app icons by yourself and I think pressing Meta doesn’t invoke the app launcher? Also I cannot start E with wayland currently, I could on v0.21.