[rmk2]

xfce might not be "bloatware", but it also lacks some things. The atrocious "support" for keyboard layout switching comes to mind. Short of writing your own scripts that directly call setxkbmap with parameters added by hand, you have no chance of having this working properly. (And yes, I know there is a plugin, and no, it still doesn't make it work)

That alone makes xfce absolutely unusable to me, although it is otherwise very nice.

Another nice feature concerning "you can manage your windows with it" is KDE's default ctrl+f8 desktop grid, that actually makes handling multiple desktops really easy and really lovely to use.