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You are correct: MATE is the GNOME 2 fork that uses GTK2. Cinnamon is a modified version of GNOME3 that uses GTK3 and provides extensions to the GNOME3 deskto
by prg318 13y ago
You are correct: MATE is the GNOME 2 fork that uses GTK2. Cinnamon is a modified version of GNOME3 that uses GTK3 and provides extensions to the GNOME3 desktop so that the default desktop looks and feels like a default GNOME2 desktop.
Linux Mint uses Cinnamon.
- mayneack 13y agoLinux Mint also uses Mate. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366 http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2366 Cinnamon is listed first, but Mate is much more of an equal player here than something like xubuntu is compared to ubuntu.