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 -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever." ------------------------------- Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ------------------------------