[Hitboxx]

You don't understand me, the DVD will be a bloat, I mean yeah it's a collectors item if you want the whole she-bang, but to get it up and running in no time, I prefer the live cd. It will install in under ~6-7 minutes, then fire up the net and you are good to go.

GNOME has always been traditionally faster on my PC, so I stick with it. I tried the KDE preview install and I got lost into it. I know every nook and corner of GNOME, can't say the same about KDE. So, irrespective of distro, me is partial to GNOME.

No idea about the XFCE custom spin.

And probably LFY with ship with the DVD soon I guess, so you can wait, although I ain't sure what arch it is going to be.