What do you count as a DE ?
Right now I'm running mwm, emacs, Firefox, NetBeans, a couple of PDF viewers and lots of xterms.
Well if you are using emacs, like I do, what else do you need?
Ok maybe a browser outside of emacs and a pdf viewer:-)
And a tmux session somewhere.
Someone once said:
I just need a bootloader for emacs :-)
So, you also have a functioning OpenJDK 8 or so to run NetBeans?
I assume this means an x86 machine, correct?
Openbsd user here:-)