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When comparing MDM vs ly, the Slant community recommends ly for most people. In the question“What is the best Linux Display Manager?” ly is ranked 6th while MDM is ranked 13th.
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Pros
Pro Easily user-configurable
Pro Many available themes
Hundreds of themes.
Pro Excellent documentation, easy-to-find/understand
Pro Mature software
Pro Minimal
Pro Simple in use
Pro Very quick and responsive
Pro CLI Based
It's so much lightweight because CLI Based.
Pro Supports both X11 and Wayland
Pro Easy to use
Includes a shell login and Basic Wayland support.
Cons
Con Might not work well with distributions that are based on more recent packages
This is a display manager forked from GDM2 by the Linux Mint developers. So the display manager is developed alongside Linux Mint, and since Linux Mint is based on the latest Ubuntu LTS it might not work well with distributions that are based on more recent packages.
Con Depends on GTK and its dependencies
Con Doesn't pickup special characters
For example ß or æ.
Con Not very customizable
Con CLI-based
Very simple and minimalistic graphical interface.