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

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Yes, almost certainly for the same reasons. I also really want the desktop out of the way nor do I want the system to be sluggish.

One of the many beautiful MATE tweaks is to easily switch compositing on/off on demand (on the fly). Disabeling hardware acceleration is sometimes a good to workaround for GNOME40-renderbugs:

  1. for apps written in flutter not using clutter not running on mutter resulting in stutter. :laughing:

  2. It also helps to lower the use of GPU memory
    (when I need a lot of VRAM for other tasks).
    ( EDIT: Why VRAM Can Ruin Your Linux Desktop Experience on Thin and Light Laptops )

Another reason: I don’t think my laptop would fly and shine as much if I would use one of the popular heavyweight desktops. (It would crawl and crash instead)

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