> too but found it to be slower than Xfce. Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Mate is slower than Xfce, since it's traditionally considered more featureful. Besi

> too but found it to be slower than Xfce. Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Mate is slower than Xfce, since it's traditionally considered more featureful. Besides, even using a cheap $200 netbook, desktop environment speed is just not an issue for me as long as I use linux + any reasonably fast DE.