Ouch!
MATE is buggy, even saving some basic settings doesn't work, unchecked
startup applications e.g. will be automagically checked again.
There's no user mailing list and there seem to be no experts in the
forums.
http://forums.mate-desktop.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1964#p6441
http://forums.mate
Hi :)
I installed Mate on Arch Linux and there are at least no performance
issues even by the default settings, so it's much better than Cinnamon.
The drawback are conflicts between packages. There are howtos for
Ubuntu, e.g to add a link zenity -> matedialog in /usr/bin. On Arch
Linux I kept z
