MATE Desktop and a little thought...

[Ric Moore]

On 07/20/2012 03:36 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
>> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Juan R. de Silva
>> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 12:02 PM
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Re: MATE Desktop
>>
>> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:24:01 +0100, Graham Todd wrote:
>>
>>> Are there any plans to offer an option for the MATE desktop at the
>>> system install in future versions of Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> Being very like the Gnome 2 Desktop, MATE offers people who cannot get
>>> on with the Unity shell and people who just would like to try the MATE
>>> desktop the option to do so, without messing about with the official
>>> GNOME 3 Desktop.
>>
>> Are you joking? Are you asking if Canonical is going to shoot in its own
>> foot? :-)
>
> It could be argued that Canonical already DID shoot its own foot with this
> Unity debacle. ;-)
>
> That has been a thorn since it's introduction and what I attribute to the
> mass exodus away from Ubuntu -- which WAS the dominant distro (even
> trouncing on RedHat/Fedora long ago to take the crown).
>
> http://distrowatch.com/
>
> Rank 	Distribution 	H.P.D*
> 1 	Mint 		3859<
> 2 	Ubuntu 	2201=
> 3 	Mageia 	1774>
> 4 	Fedora 	1697<
> 5 	Debian 	1361<
> 6 	openSUSE 	1349=
> 7 	Arch 		1154>
> 8 	CentOS 	988>
> 9 	Puppy 		853=
> 10 	PCLinuxOS 	784>
>
> Mint seems to have a significant lead over Ubuntu and includes MATE
> http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Maybe Mint just does a better job at announcing the users that 
install/use Mint to the distrowatch counter. I tried it, switched back 
and wonder if I'm still counted when I switched. Since Mint relies 
extensively on Ubuntu, why is it counted separately? They all ought to 
be first counted together as Debian, and then counted again under the 
various Ubuntu flavors, like Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, etc. to see 
which among them is the favorite. But, Debian needs to be given credit 
where credit is due. Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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