[CentOS] Alternative GUI

Peter Q. btoven66 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 02:30:25 UTC 2016


The mate desktop is very good!
On Sep 29, 2016 8:41 PM, "Fred Smith" <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> 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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