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Gnome3 and Unity drove me to use MATE, and though I give KDE, Gnome, and XFCE a shot every six months or so I still use MATE. AFAICT, for someone who prefers v
by dleslie 4y ago
Gnome3 and Unity drove me to use MATE, and though I give KDE, Gnome, and XFCE a shot every six months or so I still use MATE.
AFAICT, for someone who prefers verbosity, purposeful display usage and textual clarity over all else, it doesn't get much better on the Linux desktop than MATE.
- Nursie 4y agoHow is MATE these days? I switched to Xfce when the Gnome 3 debacle hit, and after spending about 10 minutes arranging things to look like Gnome 2, have never looked back.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoIt's a nice Gnome 2 experience. If you're set up with Xfce there's little reason to switch, but if you want to go Gnome 3 -> Gnome 2 then MATE is the best option imo.
- Nursie 4y agoI've just read the wikipedia page and was delighted to find they have a fork of gedit which doesn't hide the menus! That's now installed on my system.
- dm319 4y agoI've been using MATE for several years now. It's very solid and they've improved and modernised it nicely since gnome 2 times.