While waiting all 2001 packages to download for openSUSE Tumbleweed, I decided to test Debian Xfce live on the cluster node (I had already downloaded the ISO and stuck it onto a USB drive earlier).
It booted a lot faster than openSUSE 13.2 GNOME live did, but it's not all that surprising. Between the time when run level 2 was started and when Xfce actually showed up, the screen was black and I was slightly worried, but eventually Xfce popped up onto the screen so quick, it was like a punch to the eyes.
What was really surprising was how smooth it was, especially for a single-threaded CPU, and the CPU usage was much better than 13.2 (again, GNOME was eating the CPU). LibreOffice was slow to start, but once it was loaded, it was smooth and used hardly any CPU.
I didn't do much testing after that, since it was only a quick test to see how much better Xfce was (although I used Debian and not openSUSE); I'll most likely be doing a test install of openSUSE 13.1 Xfce to see how that is, since there's no live version.
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