On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 12:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am running Mate on Jessie...and have had no problems. However > judging by appearances only, Cinnamon is slicker-looking ( I run > Cinnamon and Mate on Fedora 19). Kernel version? Graphics and it's driver? Keep in mind that we all have different needs. Regarding to resources and performance issues Cinnamon is unusable on my machine, while Mate theoretically could be usable.