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Musubi:
I personally use Aston2 on my desktop and Aston 1 on my laptop.
Aston2-
+
widgets (like rss, calendar, harddrive, cpu, etc.).
Animated wallpapers
Stable
 easy to install and manage (compared to some open souce software)
-
Takes actually more ram than explorer.exe (Explorer.exe about 20mb - aston  - 40mb)
Because it's a windows shell some explorer.exe dependent programs won't work.
Aston 1
- It's neither freeware nor open source
+lighter (explorer.exe 20 mb of ram Aston 1 8mb)
+ fully customizable (you can easily change every icon every color and pretty much anything
+Plugins made by regular people
+ easy to install and manage (compared to some open souce software)
-Uglier than Aston 2 (Aston 1 looks like win 95 compared to Aston 2 )
- propriery (meaning not free)
http://www.astonshell.com/

delwoode:
I am currently using Talisman desktop 3 (I used to use BBclean and before tht Aston 1.9)
I use alternative shells because they are lighter on resources, if they arent I dont use them (ie Sharpe E and emerge)
also my alternative shell has to  be easy to configure (so out goes litestep)
Talisman, Aston (Not ver 2) and BBclean are all good and light on resources. I have found VERY little in the way of incompatibility with these shells

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