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Re:The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux by bdg on Sunday December 30, 2012 @10:51AM (#4986008)
I've been using MATE on my newest box. It's a gnome2 fork focused on preserving the old-way of doing things.

http://mate-desktop.org/

I've only been using it for 30 hours, but so far it's working quite well and isn't getting in my way.

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Re:The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux by jevinskie on Sunday December 30, 2012 @01:35PM (#4986623)
I had eagerly tried MATE for a while now. Only when I tried it last night (1.4) did it work well. I am a happy camper and feel much more at home with GNOME 2.
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Re:The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux by mattdeboard on Sunday December 30, 2012 @10:59AM (#4986032)
So is this basically Unity 2D by any chance?
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Re:The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux by Mavrik on Sunday December 30, 2012 @12:33PM (#4986396)
No, Unity2D was still Unity rendered without 3D. MATE is older Gnome2.
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Re:The year GNOMES, Ubuntu sufferers forked off to Mint Linux by zoowar on Sunday December 30, 2012 @12:54PM (#4986482)
Older and wiser.
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