Here’s the Deal
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When comparing MDM vs CDM, the Slant community recommends CDM for most people. In the question“What is the best Linux Display Manager?” CDM is ranked 3rd 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 Has almost no dependencies
Pro Supports virtually any DE/WM
Pro Very lightweight
Takes up almost no system resources.
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 Bad documentation & install guidance
Con Bad availability in distros
There is no CDM in distros repositories (only in AUR on arch)
However you always can compile it from source.
Con Curses-like interface
Very simple and minimalistic graphical interface.