New Cross-Distro Forum - MATE Companions

The Water Cooler
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How many of you out there feel that the primary attractant is the Desktop Environment, with the underlying OS being a secondary consideration, as long as it is Unix-/Linux-like?

If you agree with that viewpoint, then I would like to invite all those who cherish the MATE Desktop to come visit, hopefully to join, a new cross-distro forum which I have named the MATE Companions.

The hope is that with everyone of like mind sharing a common venue to discuss issues, strategies and solutions, it must have as a consequence a synergistic result of improving the overall Desktop ecosystem, if that widely-scattered web of shared experience were leveraged for common benefit, rather than limited to the various “silos” associated with any single Distro!

The greater benefit would be to give visibility of the size of the MATE-specific community, in a centralized place, which could then help raise the awareness of

  • the full extent of the degree of need/demand,
  • with a view to encourage developpers to pursue that “market demand”.

We hope you will relate … to this expression of shared need … and consider joining the Companionship soon!

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Can I reed before sighning up?

:frowning:

Access Denied

while trying to load /topics/groups/MATE.json

You’re not allowed to view that.

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Very sorry for the long delay, I had not checked my emails for anything like this.

I raised the issue with the site Admin, and he agreed that the viewing by non-members should be allowed, so he has made the change to permit that, and confirmed that it is working now!

I hope you are still interested.

Please note that since many of the more active members have shifted over to linuxcommunity.io, there has not been much MATE-specific discussion. That is, however, one of the reasons we chose to gather on this site instead of the Ubuntu Discourse, which has its own issues, technically, not counting the experiential issues the members who have gathered here would prefer to avoid for the most part!

I hope you enjoy your visit, and choose to become a Member!

Eric Marceau,
“godfather” of the MATE Companions Group, for having lead the others to a new home after shutdown of UbuntuMATE site.

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