Linux Mint: MATE vs Cinnamon?

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Lici2012-11-21 20:22:35

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Lici, 2012-11-21 20:22:35

What are the real pros and cons of MATE and Cinnamon GUIs?
Is there a difference in extensibility / speed / future prospects of the shell?
What is more supported by serious companies, what develops better?

What to choose, so as not to rearrange the shell in half a year?

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Ivan Chernov, 2012-11-21
@peanut

Quote from LOR:

I looked at mate, IMHO the best fork of gnome 2, but I didn’t see significant innovations, which can not be said about Cinnamon, the perfect combination of all the best from gnome 3 and gnome 2

But in general, if you are on Linux, can it be easier to install both shells and compare? It's just a matter of a couple of minutes.

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V_oron, 2012-11-25
@V_oron

Asked exactly the same question. Today I compared the Nadia release in two parallel running virtual machines: habrahabr.ru/post/159739/#comment_5489747

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Artem, 2012-11-22
@UrsusMaritimus

On a "big" Cinnamon computer on a Mate subbook. Both I like and quite comfortable.
Cinnamon sometimes has glitches with windows. There remains a gray inactive window outline (you have to restart Cinnamon). This was not the case with the Mate. But there may be a difference in the equipment.
On Mate, the application menu is Russified. Not on Cinnamon (you can set Russian names with your hands).
On Mate, the file manager is not nautilus, but caja, so when you call it from the terminal, you have to turn on the brain :)
On mate, you need to fumble folders on the network with a separate utility. You can use cinnamon directly from nautilus.
In general, IMHO, Cinnamon is more beautiful, and Mate is more stable.

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Sergei Borisov, 2012-11-22
@risik

Here in this article, a friend compares (but only very briefly) several DEs, including Mate and Cinnamon. But in general, the conclusion, as they have already said here, is that you need to try it yourself. Everything is very subjective. I tried it on virtual machines first. And then I realized that I want to try in combat conditions. Now on laptop xfce 4.10. I'll use it, at least, for a month then I'll install the next one (in the plans of Mate, Cinnamon and not by the night Unity and KDE will be mentioned). On desktop, for now, ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome 2.