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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by pfranz on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:33AM (#32373925)
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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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by frostwarrior on Sunday August 07, 2022 @01:02AM (#32374034)
> 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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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by Wowfunhappy on Sunday August 07, 2022 @12:51AM (#32373994)
> 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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