{"id":18235,"date":"2013-05-26T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T11:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18235"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T11:43:14","slug":"i-love-you-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/26\/i-love-you-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"I love you, MATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Three seconds after switching to <a href=\"http:\/\/mate-desktop.org\/\">MATE Desktop<\/a>, I am in love. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a long while now that I&#8217;ve been trying to get used to Gnome 3, gave up, switched to KDE 4, which is better, but nowhere near as good as Gnome 2. \u00a0All of a sudden, all those distant memories of a useful, stable, working desktop environment which is completely out of your way are a reality again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18236\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/26\/i-love-you-mate\/mate\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?fit=1366%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1366,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mate\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?fit=660%2C371&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18236\" alt=\"mate\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate-500x281.png?resize=500%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?resize=500%2C281&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?resize=1024%2C575&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?resize=510%2C286&amp;ssl=1 510w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?resize=710%2C399&amp;ssl=1 710w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mate.png?w=1366&amp;ssl=1 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only done it on my home laptop for now. \u00a0But with positive feelings that strong, I think my work laptop will be switched over on Monday. \u00a0 Huge thank you goes to both everyone who made Gnome 2 an awesome desktop and those who forked the MATE. \u00a0Please keep it up!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Three seconds after switching to MATE Desktop, I am in love. \u00a0It&#8217;s been a long while now that I&#8217;ve been trying to get used to Gnome 3, gave up, switched to KDE 4, which is better, but nowhere near as good as Gnome 2. \u00a0All of a sudden, all those distant memories of a useful, &hellip; 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