Mate just reinforces why I am bitter toward Ubuntu. Compiz used to be a pretty rad window manager 5-6 years ago. But Ubuntu basically hijacked Compiz as the foundation for Unity, so any Compiz version newer than I think 0.8.x is missing key features and suffering many bugs, if used for any purpose other than to support Unity. If Ubuntu hadn&#x27;t messed up Compiz so much, then Mate+Compiz would indeed be a viable and happy desktop environment. Fortunately Gnome3 is itself viable now. But I will never get back the many days of really trying to make mainline Ubuntu (and Mint with Cinnamon and Mate) work for me post-Unity (after all it comes with Compiz out-of-the-box! ;) ) and suffering all the stereotypical brokenness for which people deride desktop Linux.