...I'm not educated enough on the differences between DE's to know what their peculiarities are. I tend to go for programs that have sharp clean lines...a light look. They're just easier on my elderly eyeballs....One reason I like the Vista appearance. In a few decades when you reach my age bracket you'll understand what I mean.
Hello CegulsNest,
I'm wondering if you're one of those rare souls in which the Enlightenment desktop might just hit the spot. Clean lines -- you've got them. Dark backgrounds? They are there too, and easier on the eyes. Now I am in your age bracket, but look at the bright side of things; at least you still have your hair!
The developer of Bodhi Linux is Jeff Hoogland, and he give a thumbs up to the video I'll posted below. Now I like the idea of the Enlightenment desktop, but I've never been able to work it very well. But the desktop seems to be the file manager too (It's actually a Windows Manager, and I find it interesting conceptually.) One thing I don't like about Bodhi in particular is that Bodhi's default browser is Midori, but of course that be changed.
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bodhiWhat I would do, and what I suggest to everyone who works within the Ubuntu family of distributions, is put Bodhi on a 8 GB flash drive
with full persistence, and see if you like what you see. Then, if you do, a fun thing to do would be to see if we can
enlighten your Peppermint DE for you. Instead of getting heavier with KDE, let's see if we can keep your DE light.

Here's something from enlightenment.org
https://www.enlightenment.org/Here's the YouTube video from CountryfiedLinux. (Jeff Hoogland's comments can be seen below the video.) What you're not seeing here is how light and beautiful Bodhi Linux is. I imagine Bodhi 3.0 is using E19 now. I plan to check it out myself too. I like the idea of the Enlightenment desktop, but I, personally, could never get it to work very well for me. But, then again, I suspect it has improved considerably over the last couple of years, and Jeff Hoogland has been a great pioneer for the Enlightenment desktop environment.