When comparing Equinox vs LXDM, the Slant community recommends LXDM for most people. In the question“What are the best UNIX-like Desktop Environments for everyday users?” LXDM is ranked 16th 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 Fast and fluent
Pro Works with Nvidia
Works well with Nvidia.
Pro Only two dependencies
Only needs GTK and Xorg-Server.
Pro GTK2 and GTK3 versions
Pro Works well on USB
A full install of arch on live USB works well on many computers with no text issues with LXDM.
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 Requires Xorg-server
Currently LXDM does not support wayland.