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Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0



Jonathan Dowland:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:24:36PM +0800, 陶治江 wrote:
>> Why cinnamon?
>> Try MATE, I think it is better.
>> I have test cinnamon before, too much slower than MATE.
> 
> Cinnamon is in Debian officially, MATE is not. Yet, at least.

And it will most probably never be. Mate needs deprecated Gtk2 libraries
that nobody intends to support in the long run. Cinnamon uses the same
libraries that Gnome3 uses which makes it much easier to maintain in a
distribution like Debian.

J.
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