“My first Linux experiences came through Knoppix and Mandrake,
which send you to the KDE desktop by default. I used KDE at first,
but I wanted to experiment with other less Windowsesque
environments. The first one I installed was Enlightenment 16, which
I must confess I had first heard of in Neal Stephenson’s essay ‘In
The Beginning There Was the Command Line.’ In that essay he said
Enlightenment ‘may be the hippest single technology product I have
ever seen’ and that ‘it looks amazingly cool.’ Since these
sentiments were written in 1999, plenty of rivals have emerged for
the title of ‘hippest tech…'”