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Hawaii is a lightweight and modular environment written in QML.
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Pros
Pro Simple and clean
Every aspect of the shell has been crafted to fit together as a harmonious whole, in order to offer a consistent user experience.
Pro Designed for productivity
Loads and executes applications faster while preserving system resources.
Minimalist design that puts the workflow at the center, the workspace is not designed to be a show case of fancy 3d effects with applets everywhere but a mean to get the work done.
Pro Adheres to standards
Supports freedesktop.org standards.
Pro Low system resource consumption
Runs on netbooks and older computers, even some small ARM-based machines.
Pro Supports ARM-based mini PCs
Runs on Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi 2, Wandboard and other ARM-based mini PCs.
Pro Very fast startup
The workspace loads in a couple of seconds.
Pro Easy to use
Pro Smooth subtle animations
Cons
Con Not reached version 1.0 yet
A stable version has not been released yet.