I would say to use MATE by default since it will be officially supported.
I've grown to like Unity and I heard that the Amazon dash search and online
information sharing will be disabled by default in Ubuntu 16.04/Trisquel 8:
http://www.webupd8.org/2015/12/dash-online-search-to-be-disabled-by.html
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