RE: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

["Mark Allums" <mark@allums.com>]

> I don't nag about endless lines,

> It's not the end of the world, but unfavourable when you argument about
> not running into issues with your computer, while causing issues for the
> list, when you're using Windows, 

> IOW you might not experience issues with your computer, with Mate and/or
> Windows, but you at least cause issues when using Windows. 
>

This has nothing to do with Windows.  You need to set your MUA to use word wrap.  Stop bitching about Windows and fix your MUA.


I'm not nagging about you. My concern is to nag about recommending a
> third party repository, that is known to cause issues. If the OP does
> like Cinnamon, then IMO the OP should use the official packages to
> ensure that it's as stable as possible and not to switch to Mate from a
> third party repository. If the OP needs a bug fix or a new feature of
> Cinnamon 2.0, it might be worse the effort to build it from source.

The repository is "official", as it's run by people affiliated with MATE, if I understand correctly. It's just not *Debian's* "official" repository.  The repository maintainers, along with MATE devs, have fixed up their packages to work with Debian without conflicts.  The problems you speak of DO NOT CAUSE ISSUES when you use the correct .deb on a Debian system.  This is about allowing MATE into Debian, not allowing it into Arch, or Gentoo, or Slackware.  It also works in Fedora.  If these two can solve it, the others can, too.  Maybe it's not ready for Arch.  That's not upstream's problem!  It's Arch's problem!  I'm sure MATE will be happy to work with Arch. But stop using Arch as an example!

Sheesh!