Dad joke time: Mostly the Aussies!
Got Debian with MATE on a couple of my computers. It’s easy on the eyes and easy on system resources. I like that its file manager lets you expand folders so I have that installed on my XFCE machines too.
I use it, I hate GNOME.
Wasn’t MATE forked from GNOME?
GNOME 2, but yes.
I do. I’ve been on MATE for 8 or 9 years now. I like GNOME 2 environment a lot, lightweight, still looks nice, has a “classic” PC interface compared to tabletified looking icons. It just works.
I have a cup of mate every morning, yes.
Mate is one of those desktops that I occasionally consider, and it’s definitely something I could see myself using. Mate is certainly a cool project and I hope it stays around. It reminds of my early days with GNOME - before the bad thing happened and darkness descended on that project.
I hope they get Wayland going eventually.
It IS the early days of GNOME. MATE started with the source code of the last GNOME 2 release.
