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Mate started off quite good, while it still shared almost 100% code with Gnome2, but then things went sideways. Now, Mate is bugged. I am dreading having to upgrade once my dated hardware fails and new OSs no longer support it.
I am a user. This is reflected in the nick. I do not write software. I use it. And because I have a lot of experience using it top to bottom, I am qualified to pass judgment on which DE is good and which is bad. KDE 4+ and Gnome3 are crap. They should have never been released. But some absolutely need something "smartphone-like" on their resume to get a job at Google or Apple, and we suffer as in having to put up with tons of unwanted crap being shoved down our throats.
Bad decisions made by distro maintainers immediately reflect in adoption. FreeBSD should not make bad decisions if it wants wider adoption. Not caring about multimedia, mutli-monitor support, auto-mounting of USB drives, and many other mundane things that mainstream user wants is a bad decision. Abandoning Gnome2 for Gnome3 is also a bad decision.
I am a user. This is reflected in the nick. I do not write software. I use it. And because I have a lot of experience using it top to bottom, I am qualified to pass judgment on which DE is good and which is bad. KDE 4+ and Gnome3 are crap. They should have never been released. But some absolutely need something "smartphone-like" on their resume to get a job at Google or Apple, and we suffer as in having to put up with tons of unwanted crap being shoved down our throats.
Bad decisions made by distro maintainers immediately reflect in adoption. FreeBSD should not make bad decisions if it wants wider adoption. Not caring about multimedia, mutli-monitor support, auto-mounting of USB drives, and many other mundane things that mainstream user wants is a bad decision. Abandoning Gnome2 for Gnome3 is also a bad decision.