[Lain]

Light weight is why I use openbox... As an alt though, have you considered enlightenment? E16 and e17 are both very stable, not sure about e21 though as I haven't tried it yet.

Openbox is based. But too many config options for me to keep track of. Then again, XFCE isn't much better.

I've heard about Enlightenment and at some point I considered using it, but, I don't know. It just looks too 'edgy' for lack of a better term. Seems most customizations people do are with images and cool graphics (gradients, making this look 3D, etc.) rather than with the DE/WM itself, which has me on the fence.

Not sure how I feel about their migration to Wayland over x, though. Wayland is buggy garbage (sorry, features) that just isn't mature enough to consider seriously. I know that X is also a bundled mess of packages and layers of abstraction on layers of more abstraction with xinerama and the other 14 different frameworks people use to render stuff with it, but at least it works and is still pretty d*** lightweight as barebones.
I mean, even Ubuntu ditched wayland and decided to write their own compositor, so that says something too.

I remember when Cinnamon was all-the-rage a couple years back as well. 
Grade11 computer engineering had our school as a pilot program to get Linux installed in computer classes, and we used OpenSUSE+Cinnamon. 
Absolutely hated it. 
Never want to touch the d*** thing again. 
I can't fathom how something can be so ugly, and the time it would take to rice just isn't worth it when you can install something else.

There are things you like and don't like for whatever reason. I can't explain my hatred for Cinnamon, but my dad also can't explain his hatred for KDE. It's just how humans are, I guess haha.

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Meanwhile the Encrypted LVM install is now taking an hour writing random data over my drive.
This is gonna be a long night, but I reckon it'll be worth it. Better put some coffee on.