mikaela.github.io/articles/guides/GnomeToMATE.html.md

# What is what in MATE and GNOME.

MATE        || GNOME            =   What it is?

Caja           Nautilus         =   File browser

Pluma          Gedit            =   Text editor

Eye of MATE    Eye of GNOME     =   Picture viewer

Atril          Evince           =   Document viewer

Engrampa       File roller      =   File extractor

MATE terminal  GNOME Terminal   =   Terminal emulator


# Notice about aptitude

If you don't have aptitude installed, you can get it with

> apt-get install aptitude

as root or if you don't want to use it,

> alias aptitude=apt-get

# Removing GNOME versions.

If you want to remove GNOME versions, just run

> aptitude remove nautilus gedit eom evince file-roller gnome-terminal

as root.

# Removing MATE versions

If you want to remove MATE versions, just run

> aptitude remove caja mate-text-editor eom atril engrampa mate-terminal

as root.

# WARNING: You do everything on this page with your own risk.

# Sources

[MATE applicaltions]

Own experience with Linux since 2008.

[MATE applicaltions]:http://mate-desktop.org/applications/