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by pfranz 1415 days ago
I think that's where the fracturing comes in. For whatever reason, distros will ship with the new thing. The past 2 or 3 places I've worked adopted MATE (a continuation of GNOME 2). And, of course, there was instability at these places in figuring out which direction to go.
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frostwarrior 1415 days ago
> For whatever reason, distros will ship with the new thing.

Chicken and egg problem: Popular distros will follow popular DE's, because they have the most people making their way out of bugs and problems.

MATE, on the other hand, is kinda barren compared to more popular options. Even if it's the same old Gnome2 desktop of yore

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Wowfunhappy 1415 days ago
> The past 2 or 3 places I've worked adopted MATE (a continuation of GNOME 2).

Oh, so it did happen, I’m not currently a Linux user and had no idea!

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