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.
>
