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It looks quite usable, to be honest. I would have loved to use it back then.
I really enjoyed the diversity of WM/DE back then, and the innovation when new ones like Enlightenment were released!
E was one of the best. They even created their own sound subsystem, ESD, which became the de facto default for Linux desktop sound for quite a while.