25/02/2020 16:29:58 +0100
al3xu5 / dotcommon <dotcommon@???>:

> So what you suggest should be the first choice to bet on?



First of all I would like to thank you all for the many interesting and useful
answers.

As I mentioned, my desire is to have a highly usable, easily configurable,
stable over time UI. The problem is that I don't have much time available to
implement a highly customized solution: for this reason I have been using MATE
since its early releases (to avoid gnome3) and I can't decide to change.

Someone asked why wanting to change MATE, the reason is the concern of being
sooner or later "forced" to do so in case MATE evolves too much in directions
that do not seem "appropriate" to me (systemd oriented deps, freedesktop /
gnome3 "external" deps, wayland etc.) ...

I have read the release notes for MATE 1.24 [1] and the roadmap [2] and some
things seemed worrying to me:
- they say "If your system doesn't, uh, support systemd [...]" uh ??? why uh ???
- they are going to:
    "Add support for AccountsService"
    "Complete support for systemd-logind"
    "Add support for Wayland"

However, keeping in mind the advices I received from all you, I did some quick
tests using a VM.

The ideal for me would certainly be a pure openbox WM. But at the moment it
would take me too long to arrive at a satisfactory configuration such as
usability and pleasantness, in addition to the effort to change many of my
habits ...

I think LXDE could be a good compromise for me, because it has openbox but it
is faster to configure and more "close" in use for those who come from a
different "ready-made" DM...

For now I am continuing to use MATE ... Soon I will do the upgrade ASCII ->
Beowulf and then decide what to do...

In the meantime, it would be useful for me to understand better if my concerns
about MATE are sensible or are just some form of paranoia ... I thank those who
want to give me an opinion on this.

Regards

[1] https://mate-desktop.org/blog/2020-02-10-mate-1-24-released/
[2] https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/#!pages/roadmap.md