MATE Desktop

[Graham Todd]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:22:33 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> When you install Ubuntu, it does not ask you what desktop you want. By
> comparison, other distribution, such as SUSE, Mandriva or Debian, do.
> 
> Only 1 desktop comes on the Ubuntu CD. Others must be downloaded &
> installed. The same is true of all the remixes, too.

Thanks Liam for that.

I just wondered if Ubuntu was going to offer MATE as an option, as I
think Canonical has done itself a disservice with introducing Gnome
3. I accept that development of software cannot stand still but I still
find difficulty in using Unity, and I thought I'd read somewhere that
the Gnome Classic desktop wouldn't be available in future.

Anyway, no matter how MATE should be spelt and pronounced, we Brits
(who use Linux) will no doubt call it Mate (as in friend).  I don't
think it much matters as long as we all know to which desktop we refer.
After all most of us refer to our OS as Line-ux instead of Lin-ux, so I
cannot see why all this heat over the final E in MATE being accented,
is relevant, certainly in the English-speaking world.

-- Graham Todd