>MATE
profile page on github says 22 people involved
"team" page mate's website says 6 people (not counting packagers, translators and former contributors)

last update, 05.11.2015

>XFCE
no github page
"team" page on website says 9 people involed (not counting packagers, translators, you know the drill)

last update, 28.02.2015

So which DE would be objectively speaken better in terms of performance, stability, feature set?
Don't counting looks here, because that would put MATE at an obvious disadvantage

>>53681910
mate wins in all categories

mate is gnome2 forked after it's development ended in favour of new gnome3.
and gnome2 has been around since like 2003.

it was a very mature project when it was discontinued.

>Don't counting looks here, because that would put MATE at an obvious disadvantage
mate is gtk2 just like xfce. Most themes work with both.

>>53682851


Xfce 4.0 is also around since 2003 and its still the main development branch unlike MATE

Don't go after feels here please. I am asking, what is >>OBJECTIVELY better

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