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.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
    3·
    16 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?