Try XFCE. Linus Torvalds said he uses it. Meanwhile, KDE isn't all that bad nowadays. I actually kinda like KDE 4.8, it's come a long way since the early days

Try XFCE. Linus Torvalds said he uses it. Meanwhile, KDE isn't all that bad nowadays. I actually kinda like KDE 4.8, it's come a long way since the early days of KDE 4.