User Experience

Lightweight or not, a desktop environment is one of the most crucial elements of a distribution. Regardless of the features or application set with which a distribution ships, oftentimes it’s the look and feel, behaviour and responsiveness of the desktop environment which help you decide on a distribution.

Perhaps this explains why most mainstream distributions spend a considerable amount of time polishing the desktop environment and ensuring a rich and rewarding user experience.

But all of those careful design strategies go out the window when you swap