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Re:Mate 1.22 released by giancarlostoro on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:18PM (#19477484)
What killed me more is how Unity was basically just a rrally bad clone of Gnome 3 and I find it so unecessary. Gnome 3 is extendable in ways Unity never achieved. I wish they had spent their efforts just making Gnome 3 extendable for future releases not just fork it immediately.

I dont mind Unity but I can get a similar enough experience just using Gnome 3.

I do have to agree though Gnome 3 is a whole other DE than Gnome 2. You either have to use XFCE or Mate to get back that old feel from Mate.

At least with KDE4 it was just unstable but it was still a familiar enough DE. I do miss the first time use wizard KDE used to have though where it asked what OS you were most accustomed to and adjusted shortcuts and file manager behaviors to those experiences.

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Re:Mate 1.22 released by ssnistfajen on Sunday March 24, 2019 @01:27PM (#19477526)
What's funny is how nostalgia for Unity has surged after Ubuntu 18.04 was shipped with GNOME. I've found the UX of 18.04 on GNOME to be far superior compared to Unity in 16.04.
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Re:Mate 1.22 released by young_unixer on Sunday March 24, 2019 @06:43PM (#19479196)
You can call it nostalgia, but maybe Unity users that were happy with it were less vocal than Unity haters.

Unity is my favorite DE and I haven't found a good replacement yet.

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Re:Mate 1.22 released by giancarlostoro on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:12AM (#19481540)
I didn't hate it, I am indifferent about it. I am not seeing a huge difference in my use of Unity vs Gnome. I use Unity (14.04) at work and Gnome (Pop_OS!) at home.
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