Solus MATE Edition Coming Soon, but You Can Install the MATE Desktop Right Now

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

An unexpected installation of the TWiS (This Week in Solus) weekly newsletter was just published a few minutes ago by renowned Solus developer Joshua Strobl, informing users about an important milestone for the independent Linux OS.

If you didn’t hear already, Solus devs are currently working hard on bringing as many desktop environments as possible to the main software repositories of the distribution, making the operating system more attractive to those who want to switch from other OSes, such as Ubuntu, openSUSE, or Arch Linux.

According to some users, the problem with Solus was that it only came with the Budgie desktop environment, which provides a nice, clean and user-friendly interface to Linux newcomers, but hardcore users wanted to be able to install their own desktops, such as Xfce, KDE, GNOME, MATE, Enlightenment, and many others.

Last week, we reported on the availability of the i3 tilling window manager as the first desktop interface for power users in… (read more)

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