When comparing Lumina 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 Lumina is ranked 17th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Does not depend on toolkits
The desktop works without Systemd, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit or even D-Bus.
Pro OpenSource with no copyrights
The whole desktop is licensed under 3-clause BSD license which gives you complete freedom for any reuse
Pro Lightweight
It's fast and responsive.
Pro No dconf or gconf
All desktop configuration files are simple plain-text files on the back-end.
Pro Filemanager Insight fully supports ZFS
As it was initially developed for BSD-systems its file manager "Insight" supports the advanced ZFS features other Unix file managers misses.
Pro Qt-based
A Qt-based desktop.
Pro Modular
Since there are no toolkits all applications are just GUIs to common *NIX applications.
Pro Easy to configure
Pro Completely customizable
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 Poor support by distributors
It is unavailable from the most distributions so you have to build it from source.
Con Not really beautiful
Functionality comes first.
Con Unthemeable for usual users
As all Qt desktop environments themeing is hard since you need to know C++. There is a workaround using qss, however, it's not as powerful as GTK/CSS, Enlightenment or Windows theming.
Con Uses qt
Con Requires Xorg-server
Currently LXDM does not support wayland.