Whats the main reasons why you use MATE (or other DE/WM)

[tkn (thom)]

Hi @Brian_Masinick,

You wrote:

@Brian_Masinick

Since Mate is not something I use, I would be interested in finding out more about the reasons each of you like it; feel free to share as many details as you wish; the more the merrier!

You will find some answers in this topic:

What draws you to traditional desktop environments?

When it comes down to desktops, I have pretty high demands. I actually don’t care if a desktop is “modern” or “classic”. I do care about functionality and flexibility. I often regard Linux as the software equivalent of a box of LEGO® For me, a desktop: must adapt to my workflow and not the other way around. As long as you ‘live’ inside an application, it doesn’t matter. But if you use patchbays, converters, and multistep data manipulation from several applications, then it’s diffe…

But I am convinced that some MATE users have even more to tell and I hope they join in