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title: "Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager"
author: "Brandon Vigliarolo"
published_at: "2026-04-15T17:09:55+00:00"
link: "https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/"
feed: "The Register"
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# Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager

#### Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished

No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.…