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If you want sane defaults, try lxqt. It is still a huge improvement in performance after cinnamon, but you don't have to manually configure everything like in WMs.
How different is that from lxde?
Same design, different technologies. LXDE was dropped in favor of lxqt. In terms of performance both are almost the same, but in the future, when all of old code will be dropped from lxqt, it would be lighter. Also lxqt looks more modern compared to lxde.