On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 08:22:39AM -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 10:04:01PM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
I might end up switching to Mint.
I'm not sure that's a huge threat to CentOS, they're quite different.
CentOS 7 really only supported GNOME3, largely because Red Hat is so involved in GNOME development. MATE support on CentOS 7 suffered because newer versions were hard to get to work on such an older base. CentOS 8's modularity actually might make multiple DE's easier to support in EPEL, given time.
that's all true!
Despite my public whining, I am aware that Mate comes from epel, not CentOS.
I also tend to wait as much as a year after a .0 release until many of the installation or usage issues have been hashed out and understood, so by then there is likely to be a Mate as well as other DEs available.
Fred