• Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    I do! I switched from KDE 3.5 (whenever that was current). I love KDE’s approach to making everything adjustable (as opposed to Gnome’s “you’ll get one button and you better love it”) but with KDE 4 on the horizon it seemed to bloat too much for my tastes.

    I love how it’s a (for me) perfect mix of making a ton of things adjustable while appearing extremely no-frills. Easy on the ram, CPU, and eyes. 👌

  • phar@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 month ago

    I’ve jumped around a lot. Mate is great and a little more lightweight than some others. I definitely prefer Mate over Xfce. Still like KDE by far far the best, but Mate is my second.

  • Levi@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I am at the moment, but I’m thinking of switching to XFCE.

    I switched to Mate originally because Cinnamon always runs out of memory and starts slowing down over time. If they fixed the memory issues I’d probably prefer Cinnamon.

  • Koffie@lemmy.world
    3·
    29 days ago

    I did use Ubuntu MATE for a while. Quite happy with it but finally couldn’t resist the ckall of KDE

  • presoak@lazysoci.alOP
    3·
    1 month ago

    I’ve been using mate basically forever. Installed it for some people. I like it better than any other.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • TruePe4rl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    I do like it, but I have sadly fallen down the tiling wm rabbit hole. It’s too late now.

    It has been mostly i3 for me. Not for everyone, but I like the control.