• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Yeah, MATE is a direct fork from GNOME 2, so pretty much identical in its workflow.

    Cinnamon forked from early GNOME 3, because they weren’t too happy with the new design direction, but they actually ended up building almost a carbon-copy of the Windows desktop (albeit more customizable and lightweight). Even the keyboard shortcuts are basically identical, which is helpful for newbies switching from Windows to Linux Mint.