[ubuntu-za] Adding the Mate Desktop to your Ubuntu may give you improved performance

[Robin Bownes]

On 01/24/2013 01:10 PM, Nico Michael wrote:
> Hi there
>
> Has any one tried using Mate Desktop on the current Ubuntu ?
>
> My colleague has added Mate desktop to his Ubuntu and it gave him a 
> significant improvement in performance
> I would like to know if the improvement was specifically for his 
> Hardware stack
>
> These were the commands he used to do that in one shot.
>
> sudo add-apt-repository "deb 
> http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu quantal main" && sudo 
> apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring && sudo 
> apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mate-core && sudo apt-get 
> install mate-desktop-environment
>
> Please try it out for your self and let us know what you found
>
I use it on 12.04, and it does lend a bit of extra speed.