Share with us what you love the most about Elive! Whatever it is - special effects in single monitor mode, keyboards shortcuts...
Just reply to this post.... Some of us will learn about hidden secrets / features 
Yoda
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Here are a few
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Virtual desktop gadget/applet: I Love the top right corner Virtual Desktop applet, I leave all my important apps in different Workspace(Desktop) and all my Applications Windows do not hide the applet so I can easily Ctrl + Alt + Right/Left/Up/Down to move rapidly to my workspace and I see at all time all the apps that are open ( as my windows are setup to not cover the Virtual Desktop Tool
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Moving from one screen to the other screen with WINDOWS KEY + RIght or Left without using the mouse
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Key BIndings: if you Alt + Esc and type bindings, you’ll have access to Key Bindinds and there is so many things we can automate through Keyboard Shortcuts… I was more of a MOUSE guy but getting addicted to do more and more using my keyboard… It is faster
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Access applications very easily and fast through keyboard : Alt + Esc and typing the 1st letter or 2 of the app I need is way faster than using the Application Menu or CLicking an icon at the bottom of the screen
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Not Ressources Hungry : Elive take so few memory and CPU that everything goes so fast and I leave all the time 5 to 10 apps opened in different Virtual Desktop ( WorkSpace)
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Everything, almost is customizable ! So much flexibility !
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Booting / Shutdown VERY FAST !
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VERY VERY STABLE : Very few glitch !
I Am using Elive on a old old laptop and also on my main Desktop i7, 16 Gb Ram, SSD drive and it is amazing… Let’s just help Elvie through donation update kernel, drivers, and it will be one of the BEST OS for everyone, period ! 
( I come from the Mac / Windows / Ubuntu World
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Terminology terminal so cool : possibility to create different windows within one, recall previous command easily, when typing a command, right arrow to use the suggested previous command or up/down arrow to see other suggestions
And @Thanatermesis would say this is 1% of what Elive terminal can do LOL
I am not a programmer, more a user so I can’t appreciate all the quality of ELive Terminal but expert I am sure will
I will watch this thread and take notes of everything to know the user's feedbacks and represent the result in the website of Elive with a more visual attraction 
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Upon the ones listed already:
how wonderful is elives upgrading mode??? Except when u mess around with usermod ahahahh
I broke the system in any (usually) deadly way this far, but reinstalling elive in upgrade mode always saved my system, my user, my applications, my files and also my cookies 
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I won’t list all the amazing keyboard shortcuts available in Elive but, as most people don’t read manuals, pdf etc THis thread will highlight some cool stuff…
When I have too many things open on the same screen (and not in different Virtual Desktop), Ctrl + Alt + R : Shade Up Toggle On/Off, I love it !
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I like the animated icons on the bar and would like to see more animation icons, but thats just me. This is probably the only distro that has this feature of the animated icons. Reminds me of the old OS/2 Warp operating system years ago where animated icons could be made. Those days are long gone. Our young people like the plain boring icons on all the devices out their today. Too boring for me, I like the animated icons, they give the desktop personality.
I also like the Enlightment background screen with its beauty and sparkle.
Reboot / Shutdown is fast! I like the startup choice sound themes.
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I blamed the windows new metro look a lot, same for Android Oreo! The second one especially looks like high contrast theme in windows lol
Elive topaz startup sound with the Cyber sunset background gives a perfect cyber punk touch to my notebook .
The opposite of windows, I got banned by windows IRC channel because asking how to add a startup sound to windows 10 was somehow "modding the system, that's piracy" lol
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Me too, specially in the days where it was a "new thing" and a lot of people asked to change the elive to these "plain boring ones", but see... elive still has its own and different looknfeel
Btw there's a "paper" icon theme included for those who like plain things heh
I was thinking on make some "Elive Flavours" versions based in 3.0, like "Elive Schools 3.0"
"Elive CyberPunk 3.0" may sound good too
Oops sorry, I was out of the topic of this thread
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This Topic should be trending. Am surprised it had only 9 posts. This should be a sticky post. Gives new users quick headsup on the cool things Elive can do and some of us immediate users , cool tricks that some people have discovered
Personally I like the stability of the system, the low resource utilisation and minimalist no fancy gizmos . It just works out of the box!
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enlightenment.
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Isnt this the Linux Filesystem whose inventor murdered his wife? I remember when i was still a young idealistic man, stopped using it in a silent one man protest against domestic violence against women and also mostly because with its creater in prison, I didn't think it had a future. Wonder whether it has moved on or advanced. I dont think i would go back to it although am older and wiser to the world. 
Meanwhile other people has taken over the project, kept the founders name though.
I wonder why Bill Hates gots never arrested.
He hides his crimes well 
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The e-16 desktop! Finally current Firefox and Chrome/Chromium, I know that they are resource hogs, but I have allot of paid subscriptions that run smoothly on them and, I like to play them through hdmi to my living room t.v., one of my subs dropped support for apps and is only browser based now, so need to either cast the screen or, I have an pc hdmi input on my preamp.
E16 seems very stable, it is now in 2 of my laptops, xps 13 duel booting mx Linux custom spin of kde, and older inspiron 12 inch, but is an I5 with 8gig ram duel booting Debian amd64 buster jwm with a little xfce.
When I heard the welcome to elive voice, it brought back allot of old memories of some of the first gui desktop configuring I did, when I decided to look for a windowz alternative, I think around 1999-2002, liked constantly changing things up till breaking, then bringing it back, learning how far I could go, then started playing with e17 which was more fun, but when you really break things you could always log back into e16 and fix it.
I Haven't delve into the configs yet, as I'm still testing the stability before making changes, but can't wait to start playing, and to see the effects changes might have on the system.
I like the fact this is a stable enough environment, so I can use it more as my primary desktop. I found that if I have a stable enough environment to consume my multimedia, that will be the the interface I'll want to change/play with.
I have a 2nd gen pixelbook that I use as a reference interface. I have my kde configured against it, and actually prefer it. I am hopping to do the same with elive as the resource usage could help in performance, and I like the challenge to see where I can take it. I also want to revive my old thinktank from "IBM" with 32bit elive stable.
Thanks for not giving up on older more stable versions of enlightenment. Hardware is so much more expensive, yet still treated as somewhat disposable. I do have a new project, a clevo barebones laptop that is on pause till this covid crises clears, but I do have the shell with battery, and is desktop cpu compatible. lessons learned on the xps can be applied to the clevo once finished.
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Yeah, I've got stable running perfectly on some older (Thinkpad) laptops too. Great experience still.....smooth, fast, shiny and rock-solid.
It's actually a shame that most modern web-browsers ( acthally it's the web content itself) have conked out on older machines, otherwise they'd still be generally useful.
It'd be interesting to hear how your Clevo project goes, please do tell once you get started again.
@triantares " What Elive’s features do you love?"
I love (!) the effects at session start on E16....
"Welcome to Enlightenment"
(..... yeah Baby, handover your phone number, mhmmmm, that voice.... 
)
Then the visual effects, of course
and the cool sounds ....
( I had all that crab on my Macs, 20 years ago, or so - and even worth)
Then the speed is also amazing.
Then all the cool details, like e.g. :
"Obviously you are going to install the system on a SD-card.
This is not recommendef at all.
SD-cards are slow and will fail after a certain amount of write/read soon.
Do you want to restart and redo the install on another medium?
(Yes/No)"
No.
Ok, you have been warned.
Install process in progress, do not abort."
Note: All this in perfect German, I was deep impressed from those messages; they came like a real interaction with a cyber_assistant
I wonder, where all these cool features are gone to, and if we lost them on our Frankenheimer way to _amd64 ....
= Cool. Funky.
Slicker than the average 
PS:
Exactly this event made me come to Elive, btw
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yep
by other side, its work is excelent, in fact reiserfs (v3) is the best filesystem that i EVER used, I never lost any file in many crashes with it (instead, all ext* filesystems was not so reliable and gave problems or lost files), unfortunately this is true only up to the version 3.0 of elive, newer versions has reiserfs unstable (kernel developers started to use VFS code that made it somewhat buggy, and aparently is not resolved yet because very few people uses reiserfs... SO BAD! since its a so good filesystem...)
so unfortunately, is almost not maintained, not updated with new features (discard, ssd, etc... new features), etc
by other side, we have reiser4 and even reiser5, which is an entirely redesign of reiserfs, it is surely an amazing good filesystem but unfortunately because of the author's reputation (but is since years maintained and developed by a different person), is almost not used by anyone and also not included in the kernel tree... this means that unfortunately it has a few bugs that can makes it not a so good option for production, if we want to have it in production (because is a very good filesystem, just read the wikipedia details of it 
) we need more testers / reporters, etc..
there's a funny photo of him (or a fake one) being arrester for car driving... yeah he maybe was not arrested, but just because has so many money, with a big list of opportunities to have been arrested lol Microsoft litigation - Wikipedia
yeah! I always go back to e16 to work more stable when newer E's was not enough stable 
in fact e16 was selected also because of that reason: to focus on the development while using a stable desktop (which surprisingly, the actual result is really good even today's!)
you couldn't make the desktop crash 
they will be even better after the next version of eltrans which will enforce a good proofreaded english 
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