Don't mention it... Have a look at the upcoming March issue of our magazine...
If all is well, there will be an article about Desktop Environments and Window Managers...
It will answer many of your questions
I started using PCLinuxOS with the Phoenix edition which was using Xfce as the DE.
I then went off to KDE and stuck with it. But Xfce is also very good and light.
It still has a place in my heart
