Debian 12 With Mate Desktop.
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- Опубліковано 6 бер 2024
- Here is Debian 12 with the Mate desktop. It is a good alternative if you want the more traditional style desktop. It also has lots of customization options which I show you here.
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I really love linux videos from smaller channels. Thanks for making this and sharing.
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Yeah, your videos inspire me a lot because I am a student of ads and I do like Linux universe and you bring this feeling to me in your videos. For this thank you 🙏
I just found your channel, it is really refreshing to watch. You’ve got a new subscriber
I clicked this video because I liked the way your desktop looked, and I'm pleased that the rest of the video was also really well done. Thank you very much for this guide!
i've watched several times now 😅
The themes and wallpapers are from Linux Mint. I copied the wallpapers from my laptops that has Linux Mint to this one. I also have the Linux Mint themes which I downloaded from the Linux Mint Packages website. Mint also have plenty of other wallpapers from the latest versions as well.
Thanks for your explanation video and time. I hope to be like you in the future.!
Excellent video Andrea!!
Thank you for your hard work! You are a natural, congratulations!!
We can definitely hear the system sounds, Andrea! I'm also a fan of Mate. Thanks.
I am an exe Windows user. I used Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 8 before I switched to Linux. Sounds were in every version of Windows so a a Windows user I am used to it. It was the best thing about Windows. Sounds were the one thing that cheered us up when we had to wait ages for updates to install. It made using the computer more fun. It's also nice to have sounds. KDE and Cinnamon already has this. The option is also there on Gnome and Mate just disabled, but you can enable with Dconf Editor.
@@AndreaBorman Me too. I started with Windows 3.11 and jumped to Linux when W7 wasn't supported anymore. I regret not doing it earlier because Linux made computers fun again. I've played around with desktops on VMs, but more or less stuck with Mate after using Cinnamon for a while. Not a fan of Gnome, KDE or tiling windows.
Great video
old is gold
That's what Mate is based on an older version of Gnome. That is Gnome 2 which used to look exactly like that. The Mint Menu that comes with the Mate desktop is the same one that Linux Mint used to use in their Gnome desktop in Linux Mint 9. Linux Mint still uses the same start menu in their Mate edition although it is a little bit different but based on the old Gnome menu. Cinnamon is also based on Gnome 2 but that desktop has a more modern look and feel.Both desktops are good alternatives if you don't like Gnome 3.
even though I know enough of Linux, I really enjoy your "tours" on the OS'es. I wonder where your computer literacy came from?
I ask because most people are afraid of "breaking things" even when they talk about software and you seem to like installing and experimenting different things with your computer. You would be an amazing teacher btw :-)
And YOU ARE a teacher, good God you have tons of knowledge :-)
I remember GNOME 2 with the Bluecurve theme from back in the Red Hat days, it was very cozy. I also remember the Windows 95 UI fondly. Today's UI design seems either cold or not thought through.
Yeah Windows is not what it was. I was very happy with Windows 7 then Microsoft changed everything with Windows 8 and the Metro Theme. It got worse with Windows 10 and now Windows 11.
Bluecurve! I haven't heard that name in such a long time.
nice to see people still using the more lightweight linux desktop environments
Mate is actually one of the main desktops the same as Cinnamon or KDE is, but yes Mate is lighter than those. So is Gnome Flashback which is another option. XFCE is also one worth trying as that uses less hardware than KDE or Gnome. Though any desktop will use up ram over time if you have lots of software. It also depends on your hard drive size and your computer. How old the computer is and if your hardware can run Linux well or not. Although most computers can. One problem I have found is that the new laptops being sold now with Windows 11 have much smaller hard drives. One laptop I have has on it a 64 GB hard drive and it came with Windows 11. Which I uninstalled and installed Linux Mint on it. I only wish I had looked more at the system specs before I bought it, as I would not have done, if I had known it only had a 64GB hard drive. How they could think that would run Windows 11 I don't know. The laptop itself which is an HP Stream which is the one I have got mate on. As you see in the video but I just wish it had a bigger hard drive. I don't think that 64GB is enough as hard drives get more full up in the course of time. What with all of the updates and software that gets installed as well as other storage.
Mate is the evolution of Gnome 2 by a different name. It is generally ideal for old computers with at least 2 GB of RAM that do not have a graphics card that supports OpenGL 1.5 or better. At the same time it ensures that you do not have to live without any of the essential functions of a modern full featured desktop environment.
Unlike XFCE or even simple window managers, Mate isn't spartan. As Gnome 2, it was once the main desktop environment alongside KDE in the Linux world.
@@OpenGL4ever Yes I think that's right. Both Mate and also Cinnamon are just alternative versions of Gnome but they both have the traditional desktop. That is the panel and start menu Gnome used to have before they changed it in Gnome 3. Cinnamon was created by Linux Mint and maybe Mate was as well but I am not sure. There is also Gnome Flashback that is another light desktop. It is still supported and can run all of the modern apps.
@@AndreaBorman Cinnamon is based on GTK 3 like Gnome 3 and it required a modern graphic card with OpenGL version 2.0 support or better.
Gnome 2 was based on GTK 2 and the same applies to the first versions of Mate. Mate moved to GTK 3 in later versions and does require GTK 3 since version 1.18.
Cinnamon was created by Linux Mint. Mate was a fork of some Gnome users who were unhappy with the new interface introduced in Gnome 3. However, Linux Mint was the first distribution to integrate Mate as a supported desktop environment.
Other distributions, such as Debian or Ubuntu, had no Mate support for a while, it wasn't in the package repository. They basically switched directly from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3 and as a user you had to compile Mate yourself as a user.
Today all major distribution do support Mate.
@@OpenGL4ever Well I know that Cinnamon was created by Mint and I thought Mate was as well. The first Linux in 2010 was Linux Mint 9 and Mate looks exactly the same as that. So I thought that Mint created the Mate Desktop also. Gnome Flashback although it is also based on Gnome 2 has GTK3.
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I don't mind but all of the pop up that websites have these days are a nuisance. They are very annoying and slow you down.
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are you kidding me, I am a new subscriber too
Hello Andrea,
Have you considered learning Tcl/Tk? I think it's very cool and it makes it very easy to write little graphical applications, and helpful little scripts to do all sorts of things.
I'd love to know what you think of it.
Thank you a lot for your really cool videos.
check out the brisk menu, probably not installed out of the box but you can add it with synaptic.
Yes the Brisk menu can be installed on Mate. They also have it in Synaptic Package Manager on Debian but I like the Mint Menu better.
Hello Andrea, thanks a lot for your showcase of the mate desktop. I really liked your setup. Would you mind sharing the sound-theme? I can't find them online.
I got the sounds from the Trinity Desktop and I copied the files onto a DVD and burned the DVD. Then I just install them on my other computers and put them in the user/share/sounds folder on whatever Linux distro I install. You have to open the user folder as root or administrator to do this. The Trinity Sound files are in opt/trinity/user/share/sounds on Trinity which I copied them from. I have the Trinity Desktop on Linux Mint:ua-cam.com/video/4iLOETJR5ik/v-deo.html&t
@@AndreaBormanThank you very much for the detailed explanation!
From out of all this desktop environments which one do you like? :)
You are very good with computers do you work in IT ?
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The sound is distorted.
Try zorin os
i'm using cinnamon
So am I on my other laptop. Both are very good desktops and run all of the Gnome and KDE software. Mate is a bit lighter and uses less ram I think but Cinnamon is also good for computers with older hardware. I have been using Debian for 4 weeks now and it does seem to be lighter than Ubuntu from which Linux Mint is based. But both are good distros.
@@AndreaBormanoh ok..glad to hear..nice.
@@AndreaBorman No, if you have older hardware Mate is the better option. Cinnamon is based on GTK 3 like Gnome 3 and thus requires a modern graphic cards that supports at least OpenGL 2 or better.