How do you load your DE? deamon style or inittab?

I'm curious as to how everyone is loading the DE's they use.  I like to load the "proper" way in inittab and changing the runlevel to 5 but I see more and more recommendations to use the rc.conf DAEMON line method or even backgrounding it like so (kde example)..
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network hal crond alsa @kdm)
I know that backgrounding it daemon line style will give that feel of a "faster bootup" but I'm not sure if it's ok to leave the "purist" method of inittab behind.  Is it safe or is it going to cause unforseen problems down the road?
What do you think and what do you use?

stjepan wrote:Xgl+startxfce4 in ~/.bash_profile
I did not know that this is possible, just tried it out with startx in ~/.bash_profile and this ~/.xinitrc
xbindkeys &
exec startxfce4
I like it!
edit:
Before I used SLiM startet via inittab...
Last edited by SiD (2007-04-14 08:39:25)

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