Enlightenment vs GNOME

Enlightenment is a window manager for Unix-like operating systems. GNOME is a desktop environment which includes a window manager.

GNOME is very popular and feature-rich. It allows the user to adjust settings, easily arrange the operating system panels, and add or remove widgets (such as clock, battery monitor or wireless networking) from the panels. Because of its popularity, there is a wide variety of software written to work with the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME is used by default on some of the most popular Linux distributions, such as Mint and Fedora.

Enlightenment is less well known and is probably missing many of the features of GNOME. With enlightenment problems are less likely to be well documented with solutions available upon a simple google search. However, enlightenment is designed to be lightweight and therefore should give faster performance on a machine without much memory & processor speed. Englightenment is used by default on several successful light-weight Linux distributions, including Macpup.