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Naive question: visually, this looks like all Mints before it. As an Ubuntu and OSX user, I'm not sure I'm liking the 'retro' Linux UI style.

For a distro like Mint or Ubuntu to hire a professional design team for the OS to provide an aesthetic and holistic UX comparable to OSX / Android - is the stopper just budget or is there something technical in X/Mir that stops that from happening?

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> Naive question: visually, this looks like all Mints before it. As an Ubuntu and OSX user, I'm not sure I'm liking the 'retro' Linux UI style.

If you don't like the look of MATE, then don't use it. The entire point of MATE is that it is something for people to use if they don't like what self-described UI experts did with GNOME after version 2.

Seriously, I'm not kidding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)#History

If you want new, experimental, or 'professional', go look for it elsewhere.

(I do not use MATE, GNOME 3, Unity, or KDE.)

MATE is the most popular Gnome 2 fork for people who hate GNOME 3. Cinnamon appears to be an attempt to adopt some of the good qualities of Unity but without the drawbacks.

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