So in Spanish it's pronounced ma-tay.
That is as I was saying, our accents differ.
The author of it was from Venezuela or Columbia, or somewhere. He worked with the GNOME project and got disenchanted with the way it was headed so started MATE.
Yerba Mate is drunk traditionally using a silver straw, and there are pictures of the Pope drinking it.
Why do you like Mate over Cinnamon?
Cinnamon I find a close 2nd. MATE's mate-terminal is more customisable than GNOME's gnome-terminal, which is in Cinnamon as well as GNOME.
Cinnamon has built-in the opportunity to run your wallpapers as a slide show, so we have our kids and grandkids on my wife's Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Xfce also has the slideshow option, as well as xfce4-terminal being nearly as customisable as MATE's.
For multibooters, Xfce has an annoying habit that when you leave a session of GParted, it will remount all your partitions, either showing a nag popup with each, or a full window of each remounted partition displayed under its File Manager, Thunar.
I am with
@Vrai on Unity. Again, from a multibooting perspective - all my partitions lined up on the launcher at left make it compacted to the extreme, and difficult to use.
Unity, and GNOME, use the Nautilus (aka Files) FM, which I find a PITA unless you load addons (and there are plenty out there).
So when we talk DEs, we have -
- the DE itself, with or without some individual apps and utilities that ship with it, the Look and Feel, &c
- FM
- WM - Window Manager
all intimately tied together. You can change an FM, but then you have a hybrid.
Also if you change an FM, do not delete the default FM (only its icon) or you will brick the DE.
Well, I've spent more than Tom, $2 I reckon.
Nice Thread, though, Carl
Cheers
Wiz