Developer Martin Wimpress has announced their intention to move on from Ubuntu MATE, and so the distribution is looking for fresh faces.

Developer Martin Wimpress has announced their intention to move on from Ubuntu MATE, and so the distribution is looking for fresh faces.

What is Ubuntu MATE? It’s an official flavour of the Ubuntu family. Using Ubuntu as the base of the packages but it comes with the retro MATE desktop environment which is the continuation of the old GNOME 2.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    5·
    13 hours ago

    I’m unsure how to feel about this. From some screenshots online it seems the project is really polished, and it’s apparently fairly popular, this makes me hope someone picks it up. But on the other hand there are already rather similar distros, like Mint MATE*, so this might be slightly pointless.

    *I used it for a few years, it’s great. In fact I’m still technically using it, I just installed Cinnamon over it.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    3·
    15 hours ago

    just fucking kill it and replace it with ubuntu XFCE or other lightweight DE.

    I tried to get Ubuntu Mate to decently deal with being customised with its own customisation set, it failed. I had a craptop with ubuntu mate on it, it still ran like shit.

    EDIT : the ubuntu versions work like debian blends anyway, why does it need an active maintainer?