>most of the desktop's development comes from Ubuntu MATE>already on life support, Ubuntu MATE is several versions behind and it's not getting a 26.04 LTS>lead maintainer steps down after over a decadeguys is MATE kill?
>>108532776>matei tried it on live before installing my current setup, and it gave me major abadonware vibes, i liked the panel, but the themes were all meh.
>>108532776Why use mate instead of Xfce or Cinnamon?
>>108532965>abadonwareThat sounds like a theme for a SquidNation video
>>108532965has canonical ever made something that didn't turned out to be abandonware? baring ubuntu itself of course
>>108533183Canonical doesn't make Mate
>>108533342oh shit right I was thinking of unity
>>108533061> CinnamonCan be very good, but you have to tweak it a little. But it's on a heavy side, perhaps one of the top heaviest DEs.> most of the desktop's development comes from Does not matter. Linux world is cucked, someone does the real job, someone else takes the credit and wraps it in a GUI and sells. Or just sells right away without doing much. Or steals you major killer features to avoid losing clientele.Try to fight it and you will end up like that dude who won the case agains microsoft but ruined his entire life while doing it. Ended up old, divorsed and mentally broken.All because Bill Gates stole his software (not figuratively, it was Bill personally failing to legally aquite and then ended up stealing his software and pretending it's Microsoft's property) and he refused to let it slide just because Bill was a big shot with connections in the government etc.The game is rigged.
>>108532776Right as I was thinking of switching to Ubuntu MATE... why is the world so evil, anons? Out of the lightweight DEs it's the best looking one for me by far.
>>108532776why not just use debian with mate? ubuntu mate is a derivative of ubuntu which is a derivative of debian.
>>108533635you missed the point of the post
>>108532965>themes were all mehyou now you can install old gnome 2 themes, right? i installed freebsd with mate on old x220 and it's pretty comfy with old bluecurve strawberry theme. use it while it lasts.
I don’t think Mate has had a good reason of being since it ported to GTK3 (which they had to do).Originally, when it wasn’t certain Cinnamon would succeed implementing GNOME 2 features in a GNOME 3 fork, it made sense, but both Cinnamon and Mate have more or less the same goals and use the same technology.They should have started collaborating a long time ago (do we need Caja AND Nemo? Xed AND Pluma? and so on) like RazorQt and LXDE did.
>>108533646the point being that most of development is coming from ubuntu maintainers? dunno their github still has activity and to be fair what could you possibly add to the environment? i don't think anyone expects there to be new stuff added so you might as well just use debian.
>>108533372>and sells>just sells>steals you>divorsedyou are an retard
>>108532776Works just fine for me on Arch.>>108533061It's more plug-and-play than Xfce, but Xfce is also cooler if you take the time to configure it. I think mine looks just fine, though. Cinnamon just sucks.>>108533372>But it's on a heavy side, perhaps one of the top heaviest DEsAlso this.>>108533542Why would you run a lightweight DE on Ubuntu? That's not exactly a light OS. Come to Arch, the water's great. It's as easy as Ubuntu once you know which packages to install and why.>>108533635I can't speak for that anon, but I wouldn't on a daily driver just because outdated packages.
