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When comparing Mezzo 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 Mezzo is ranked 20th.
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Pros
Pro Available as .deb package
Mezzo is available as a .deb package, which makes it very easy to install it on Debian or Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu.
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 Possibly discontinued
There's not much new information about Mezzo around, and all the articles or forum posts about it are quite old which may be an indication that it's probably abandoned now.
Con Requires Xorg-server
Currently LXDM does not support wayland.