Pretty funny, guys. Though I'd have to say, I do like Cinnamon. MATE is still a bit unusable, but it does have potential. I'm currently running Linux Mint 11 for the *truly* classic Gnome2 interface. It is much more stable than MATE for one thing, and my favorite GTK+ themes (Orta and Atolm, for example) are more compatible with GTK+2. If I try to use them on a GTK+3 interface I get a boxxy, 1998-style theme while using apps as root (Synaptic, for example). But anyway, I have faith in the potential of MATE to be a truly special desktop environment, perhaps even as special as Gnome2. Gnome shell is arguably the worst thing that ever happened to the Linux desktop.
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