proton007
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Um, I meant minimalist as looks sleek and stuff, not minimalist overall... :/ I'm running XFDE and find it to be nice... I might swap over to KDE though if XFDE doesn't have all the customization I want.
Most DEs can be made to look sleek and minimal, there are tons of themes for all of them. Some offer more customization than others.
The issue that I've experienced, is the 'bells and whistles' or 'features' that you'll be needing. For instance, full fledged DEs do most of the work for you...so you can stay away from the terminal most of the time, unless you need to perform an upgrade (this is in Arch, in other distros even this isn't an issue).
For me, daily user who just wants to get work done, and has a reasonably good hardware --> KDE.
Not that powerful, but still need good features --> XFCE/LXDE
Don't need a lot of features, using the terminal most of the time --> *box.
Point is, when you're going 'minimalist' by code and features, you have a nimble system, but you have to analyze the trade-offs.