"It is one of the 2 choices of DE's for Linux Mint which is one of the most popular Linux distros out right now."
Thats not quite true, Mint was one of the most (independently & newly) downloaded distros on several distro watch lists in recent months. If you consider most popular to mean largest install/use base, then it isn't.
Not really. It's the top in pageviews at Distrowatch, but there really isn't any reason to think its popular outside that community. I know that among the people I interact with, 20+ run Ubuntu, 3 run Debian, 1 runs Slackware, 1 runs Gentoo, 1 runs NetBSD, and none run Mint.
I wasn't nitpicking. I wasn't just saying mint wasn't THE most popular, I was actively saying that it wasn't even ONE of the most popular (by the definition I gave).
And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so being picky over what criteria you use to choose them isn't such a bad thing.
Cinnamon has just made it into Fedora as well. For those not following, Cinnamon is a "traditional" (ie. GNOME 2- / Windows 95- / NextStep-like) desktop based on GNOME 3's and Gtk3's underlying technologies.
thats a good news for long time fedora users. I'm using Fedora since FC-2. After Gnome-3,my machine became unusable.
I don't want to switch to ubuntu :P Last month I filed a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834266 for it too. Glad to hear this change.
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stop nitpicking please.
And even if that still seems picky, packages make or break a distro, so being picky over what criteria you use to choose them isn't such a bad thing.
P.S. Comment 146 mentions it as a possible feature.
Currently XFCE is my desktop environment of choice, but if Mate is adaptable to my needs I might switch.