gtk3, gtk4 (probably?) qt, qt in flatpak, gtk3 in flatpak, gtk4 in flatpak (probably)... I'm just not fighting it anymore
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Heh, everyone here seems to be coming from kde or gnome, and I'm over here with xfce like that guy with the bong while the two girls fight.
Meanwhile MATE chads just sitting in the attic listening to the chaos.
MATE is to GNOME as Pickachu is to Raichu.
I'm not sure I have a point, but the analogy rings true I think.
Idk about Pokemon so I have no clue LMAO.
MATE is a fork of gnome 2, made by people who did not like the paradigm gnome3 was heading towards. So, much like Ash's pickachu which never evolves to Raichu, Mate remains "old".
MATE is the first of four "Screw that we're forking GNOME" distros.