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A friend swears by dwm.  |
Depends on what you want. There are
many *nix Window Managers 
A chap on the Puppy forums detailed how he got a Puppy installation intended as a dedicated media server that would run on an ancient Toshiba laptop with 16
MB of RAM. To do it, he had to strip out everything that
could be stripped out and still have a running Linux system, and actually build the Puppy image on a more powerful machine, then remove the HD from the Toshiba, put the image on it, put it back in, and reboot. He used the Puppy default of JWM as the window manager.
Eric Raymond was going on a while back about getting
i3 to work on a dual monitor setup. Eric spends most of his time developing and largely lives in emacs, so i3's tiled interface is a good fit.
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I took the easy route and used Cinnamon. Middling fair-ish, not nearly as bad as heavyweights like Gnome3, Unity, and KDE.
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Unity isn't that bad in terms of weight. The interface paradigm is what puts off most folks.
Gnome3 is what Jamie Zawinski termed "teenage attention deficit" development. Gnome2 had a list of bugs as long as your arm that hadn't been fixed. The problem was, fixing bugs isn't
fun. Writing
new code is fun. So we got Gnome3, with a number of changes long time Gnome users despised, and a whole new list of bugs that won't get fixed.
If you go with KDE, you buy into the KDE ecosystem. It's highly developed and stable, but huge, and you really need to add all the various pieces written for it to make proper use. I respect it, but don't need what it offers badly enough to make the investment in running it.
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Dennis