I also use plain Debian on my Samsung NC10 Netbook, my main problem was the 32bit CPU! Ubuntu drops/dropped 32 bit support, in Debian there seem to be no plans yet. LXDE (preconfigured OpenBox) and XFCE are working fine. But as I said, I upgraded to an SSD and to the maximum of 2GB RAM.
I also use plain Debian on my Samsung NC10 Netbook, my main problem was the 32bit CPU! Ubuntu drops/dropped 32 bit support, in Debian there seem to be no plans yet. LXDE (preconfigured OpenBox) and XFCE are working fine. But as I said, I upgraded to an SSD and to the maximum of 2GB RAM.