[CentOS] Alternative GUI

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Fri Sep 30 01:41:29 UTC 2016


On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:25:54PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> I'm considering moving from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7.  I'm not interested in
> dealing with Gnome 3.  I've heard good things about Mate, a fork of
> Gnome 2.  it appears that Mate is available in the EPEL repository
> associated with CentOS 7.
> 
> Have any of you tried Mate on CentOS 7?  In your experienced opinion
> what would I be giving up by abandoning Gnome 3 and installing Mate instead?

I'm using Mate on several C7 systems. The only issue is that now I
dont have to try to use that horrid Gnome thing they've inflicted on us! :)

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