

Enlightenment is SO configurable that it almost doesn’t have a look, and therefore doesn’t really have "brand’ per se. Take a look at galleries and collections of enlightenment setups: they’re all massively different in look and behaviour.
I remember in my early days of Linux (late 90s) it was too much for me.
I agree they aren’t the same, especially if you need uniq to count things.
However, be aware that pipes can be a real problem in scripts because of globbing and expansion.