On 10/17/19 7:08 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 9/24/19 2:41 PM, Frank Cox wrote: >> Without wanting to sound too pushy, I'm wondering if there is any update on the status of Mate now that Centos 8 has been released? >> >> I would love to jump on C8 and start playing with it, but the lack of Mate is kind of a showstopper for me at the moment. >> > Is gnome3 really that bad :D :) As much as I was tempted to try Mate, I decided using Gnome might be better in the long run. Using Gnome 3 "classic" with a "startx" start which has issues in terms of everything working right as opposed to gdm, but, well, this is what I wanted to do. I just wish Gnome 3.28 was more configurable without a lot of work. > > I decided to just bite the bullet and shift to real gnome3 (and not the > classic) about 4 years ago. It waas different and took some time to > learn .. BUT .. I can do everything I need to do now. > > I like both mate and cinnamon .. so I am not knocking either one. I just > think people might be well server switching to a 'supported' desktop in > the longer run. > > Again .. don't get me wrong .. it's open source, so do what makes you > happy :D > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos