FWIW, the author explains his reasoning about desktop environments in the middle of this page: https://ejmastnak.com/tutorials/arch/startx/ https://ejmastnak.co

FWIW, the author explains his reasoning about desktop environments in the middle of this page: https://ejmastnak.com/tutorials/arch/startx/ https://ejmastnak.com/tutorials/arch/startx/ Basically recommending to start minimal, with the freedom to configure/add things afterwards.