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> Gnome kept a way to have a more classic behavior.

Not really, even with Plugins everything is handled by Mutter - you don't have the modularity of Gnome 2 where you can switch out the panel, file browser or window manager as you please.

Fortunately Mate forked Gnome 2 to retain the old desktop.

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MATE is my preferred environment, but is it even viable anymore?

Despite being in the package list for fedora(?) on recent versions, It fails to install and talk on the bug thread is just to remove the packages from the repo.

Same here... MATE is the default... can't really migrate to Wayland then.

Ubuntu Mate still seems to be doing fine, but yea the latest mayor update of the desktop was two years ago, development isn't very busy there.

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