Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by david-given on Friday September 02, 2016 @10:20AM
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Not even slightly, sorry. It was a year or so ago.
I'll certainly give Mate another try the next time I upgrade him.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by riboflava on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:47PM
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Another potential option is to throw Compiz in the mix after you have Mate up and running. Though that may make things more buggy than less, at least you can justify it with eye candy. :)
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by blockednbcads on Friday September 02, 2016 @12:20PM
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I tried MATE recently, I wanted to like it too but found it to be slower than Xfce.
Re:Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
by jnbiche on Friday September 02, 2016 @01:29PM
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> too but found it to be slower than Xfce.
Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if Mate is slower than Xfce, since it's traditionally considered more featureful. Besides, even using a cheap $200 netbook, desktop environment speed is just not an issue for me as long as I use linux + any reasonably fast DE.
Really? I've installed Mate on ~10 computers, and have never run into UI bugs. I run Mate, my two kids run it on their computer, and I'm sometimes on that one helping them with school related stuff. Never run into UI bugs. I don't doubt that there are such bugs, but in my experience they're pretty rare (unless the project has taken a recent nosedive, always possible in open source).
I've run into some UI bugs using Mint Cinnamon, are you sure you were using Mate and not Cinnamon?
Do you remember what the bugs were? If it's something you can remember, I'll see if I can fix them so that future users don't run into them.