Suggestion to use MATE Ma-Tay for Gameover linux & as default for Sparkylinux.

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Suggestion to use MATE Ma-Tay for Gameover linux & as default for Sparkylinux.

http://www.itworld.com/article/2885122/the-8-best-desktop-environments-for-linux.html#slide7

MATE

MATE is a new desktop environment that was created to help those users who were not happy with Gnome 3 and wanted something lightweight that doesn't require re-learning to perform the same tasks.

MATE was initially developed by an Arch Linux user and then became the default DE of Linux Mint Mate edition.

While MATE may not be as lightweight as LXDE or Xfce, it's certainly a decent distro to run on older, less-powerful hardware.

MATE offers a bit of a modern look and feel compared to other DEs, and the developers behind the project feel that "MATE is appealing not only to individuals looking for efficient desktops, it has great appeal for enterprise customers who want to use resources more efficiently. There are enterprises who want a lean desktop for remote desktop use cases. MATE provides a lean, familiar, highly customisable interface for them."

MATE is basically the fork of the unmaintained code of Gnome 2 and developers have replaced a lot of components with modern technologies. They have forked components of the desktop such as Caja (file manager) and Pluma (text editor), among many others.

MATE is is the default DE of many major distributions such as Ubuntu Mate and Linux Mint Mate and is available for almost all major distributions.

Pros:

Lightweight distro
Modern look and feel

Cons:

None that I can think of.

By Swapnil Bhartiya.

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My personal experience with Ma-Tay is good one too. I personally think and consider Ma-Tay to be better than LXDE, XFCE and LXQT.

Is it possible to consider Ma-Tay for Sparkylinux 4.0 Gameover linux?

Also is it possible to make Ma-Tay Desktop Environment as default or flagship DE of Sparkylinux?

As per now, LXDE is default and I must be thinking that Ma-Tay is just perfect to replace it.

It is true that Ma-Tay takes more - just a little more RAM than LXDE but, LXQT and XFCE take or consume more RAM than Ma-Tay.

Please consider Ma-Tay.

http://mate-desktop.org/

Thanks.

[way12go]

Recently I've been using XFCE and realized XFCE seems to be better than MATE desktop environment. I realized that I'm just a beginner in terms on Linux knowledge - coding... but experienced in terms of being a linux... general - user.