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MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, which is a full featured desktop environment as well. MATE runs orders of magnitude faster and is much more stable than KDE. Especia

by qha 8y ago

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2, which is a full featured desktop environment as well. MATE runs orders of magnitude faster and is much more stable than KDE. Especially on the old workstations where they installed LiMux. I'm not going to say that the project failed entirely because of technical reasons, but at first glance it really looks like they took bad decisions. It's hard to defend a move where you end up with worse software and a worse experience for users, no matter how much money you save.

Jonnax 8y ago
There's barely any development on the GitHub. And also it seems like there are few contributers. Whilst KDE is a much bigger project that is actively developed.
- qha 8y ago
  If that's your indicative of the quality of a project then I understand your position.
  - coldtea 8y ago
    First, being abandoned for new development is a great indication of the quality of a project. Second, you haven't given us any arguments for your "indications of quality" regarding MATE and KDE. Third, like Gnome, KDE has a huge legacy in FOSS, and is a great project in itself based on a top notch GUI backend. Some of its code even went on and become the basis of the modern web (KHTML -> Webkit -> Blink -> Node -> now also Edge), other tools like KDevelop, Krita, etc are among the best in class in what they do. What are you, some teenage Linux nerd, with a "favorite" desktop to promote in flame wars?
    - gronne 8y ago
      And I who thought the KDE/Gnome wars was over.
      - Jonnax 8y ago
        MATE is not a GNOME project. When GTK3 was made and the decision to build Gnome Shell was made, the MATE project was started to fork GTK2 and the old shell.
rfrey 8y ago
Orders of magnitude faster? 100 times faster? Gonna need to see some numbers before I believe that.