All that - and then you end up using Gnome?!

Wait - you're still running e16?!

Yeah, that was a game changer, learning about the dbl binds. I picked it up again a few weeks back, and those have been some pretty unproductive weeks

Could you expand on that? What is exceptional about the feature set, and how does e use the desktop differently?

Ranger and/or vifm as file managers. Can't live without them

It also has a much simpler and forgiving syntax. Just type rg anything and it finds anything