There only needs to be DE, and that's MATE

There only needs to be DE, and that's MATE.
>Customizable
>Comfy
>Now has a global menu
There's literally no reason NOT to use it

>global menu
you say that as if it were a good thing

Budgie is going to overtake it in the "looks nice and has sane defaults with easy customization" department soon.

lol

>TWO
>FUCKING
>TASK
>BARS

>Cluttering everything in one bar
>Not having two bars flank your screen like a warm embrace
Fuck off, you know nothing

LXQT is superior.

TWO<
FUCKING<
TASK<
BARS

2007 called, it wants it's desktop back grandpa

Looks like total shit.

>There only needs to be DE, and that's [whatever I prefer]

maybe if they fix mutter integration

then:
>you know that new Start bar in Windows 98 is pretty nifty. We should utilize something similar. Let's place it on the top and streamline it.
now:
>the status/menu bar is great, but you know what's missing? One of those nifty Start bars like in Windows 10

What do you mean?

The new menu bar is pretty great too
I didn't put any effort in ricing this by the way, so yes it looks a bit drab

it was buggy and lacked any kind of customization (even with gnome-tweak-tool) when i tried it. I had to change DE to gnome to configure it and then go back to mate. It was on the latest version of mate.
But being able to choose external compositors like this in mate-tweak is cool as fuck.
Performance was really nice though, seems to be the best way to use mate on an nvidia gpu.

I like mate, but there shouldnt be a singular DE, and your rice is shit desu

>meme distro
>meme DE
>meme browser
>meme terminal emulator
You won, mate.

Is it usable?

>two bars

>he doesn't use the Redmond layout

lolz

>Now has
Since when?
I want to try it then.

It is better than Gnome 3, but still inferior to Plasma 5.

MATE is my first Linux distro and I'm loving it so far. Fucked up my first install and am now just keeping it simple, just for uni and browsing. Not even wine running

as much as I like the feel and low resource usage of MATE, I wonder if it really has a future. the framework is old and just maintained for the sake of the DE. will it and can it last forever, or will it eventually fall into oblivion when new hardware and technologies emerge that are no longer possible to support or port to.

Mate is not a distro, it's a desktop environment.

Apparently the MATE developers are going to work with Mir developers to make Mir a WM/compositor for Wayland.

okay grandpa

are you the new DE variant of kevin? stop spamming MATE, mate.

Wrong XFCE exists

>not one, but 2 fucking panels wasting vertical space
amazing

Robbin Smith?

install xfeces

>xe pronounces "MATE" like m8

it's MUH-TEI

if i wanted my DE look like shit id install gnome

mate is also excellent on the raspberry pi