After 15 months of heavy development work, the MATE community recently announced the release of MATE 1.10.

I run MATE on my Arch Linux box along with Plasma 5 and Gnome (why use one DE when you can use all, especially when you are running Arch?). Arch and Mate make a great pair for one simple reason: you can create an extremely lean and optimized desktop for your workflow.

MATE could be used on older and less powerful hardware, though users may find DEs like Xfce or distros like Puppy Linux more suited for such hardware. But where MATE really shines is when you want to use modern hardware and technologies and need a DE that keeps your system resource efficient.

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