Here’s the Deal
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When comparing MDM vs LXDM, the Slant community recommends LXDM for most people. In the question“What is the best Linux Display Manager?” LXDM is ranked 9th 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 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 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 Requires Xorg-server
Currently LXDM does not support wayland.