by Az4x4 » 20 Sep 2013, 04:19
You're right Peter. The classic Gnome 2 desktop, continued and improved on in the MATE project, is endlessly customizable and fantastically easy to work with! It's what a real working desktop environment should be, what millions of Gnome 2 users were afraid they'd lost when Gnome developers abandoned Gnome 2 and moved on to Gnome 3, a troubled much maligned desktop environment that Linus Torvalds labeled an "unholy mess".
The depth of what one can do to customize his or her desktop environment in MATE is virtually endless. As others take time to share the look and feel of their own MATE desktops it will become obvious how incredibly versatile our favorite DE actually is, and how easy it is to set it up any way a user may desire!
That you chose MATE as the default DE for Point Linux is something that multitudes will thank you for as time goes by and word continues to spread! MATE is the topping on the ice cream, the frosting on the Debian foundation that is Point Linux, and the whole package ranks among the best of the best Debian based distros for all the right reasons!
How to become a Super User: Wear your underpants on the outside and put on a cape ... or boot to root, your choice!