On 2018-04-13, Paul R. Ganci <ganci at nurdog.com> wrote: [...] > Then it was just a matter of: > > > yum groupinstall "MATE Desktop" > > systemctl set-default graphical.target > > reboot > > Voila... I have a desktop running MATE! Glad you got it working. I thought I'd mention that the reboot is not strictly necessary. The command yum isolate graphical.target will switch the system immediately to the named target.