Is LXDE faster than XFCE?

[ccc]

hi

I'd like to build FreeBSD Live, booting from the USB stick and my choice are these 2 Window Manager: LXDE and XFCE.
Is LXDE faster than XFCE as Live?

 

[vermaden]

Yes.

 

[Majorix]

It is a lot lighter, if not a lot faster. Still faster though

 

[ccc]

Thanks, but what about stability?

 

[formateur_fou]

I used LXDE a little more than a year and switched to XFCE. I found both to be stable, appart from PCManFM I had some trouble with at time (things may have changed). XFCE seems more mature and has more features which often are available as separate packages. But again, I switched to something else (Openbox, which is the window manager used in LXDE).

 

[Majorix]

LXDE recently hit 1.x and to my experience in the last year or so it is quite stable. Never had any problems with it, in both FreeBSD and Debian Linux.

 

[ccc]

I've tested both now and it works well, but LXDE needs just 10MB less RAM and it seems to be a little bit faster on my P4/1GB RAM, slow machine.