When comparing Equinox vs UKUI, the Slant community recommends UKUI for most people. In the question“What are the best UNIX-like Desktop Environments for everyday users?” UKUI is ranked 14th while Equinox is ranked 19th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro LIghtweight
Equinox only consumes and needs tiny memory space.
Pro Customizable through a user-friendly control panel
The control panel lets you customize Equinox through various applets with which you can customize everything from the wallpaper to the fonts to use.
Pro Uses FLTK
It uses the lightweight and stable Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK).
Pro Conservative look
Pro Simplified MATE
Pro Nice feel
It's more like Windows 8 but besides that, it looks great.
Pro Stylish
Cons
Con Not very stylish
It's not a very stylish desktop.
Con Poor support by distributors
Most distributions don't ship Equinox so you have to build it from source.
Con Not fully translated
Con UI isn't optimized for lower end pc/laptops
Super slow UI that could take 3-6 seconds to popup. Gnome was slow but UKUI was very sluggish in comparison.
Con Looks like Windows 8
It just looks like Windows 8.