xfce4 here, very light weight, customizable, boots up instantly for me.I use nfsv3 and netboot many box's with it as a shared read only root
> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:43:29 +0430 > Subject: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !) > From: bz.khosr...@gmail.com > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I > had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and > it is very great. > I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too. > Before jumping to gnome I wanted to evaluate my options. > I have heard that " It is a matter of taste" but think it is not all > of the story. > I have heard that the gentoo community is more inclined toward KDE > too. So KDE must have some advantage that makes people like it's > taste! > So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not > the other options ? > thanks. >