| MATE | GNOME | What it is? |
| Caja | Nautilus | File manager |
| 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 |
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
If you want to remove GNOME versions, just run
aptitude remove nautilus gedit eom evince file-roller gnome-terminal
as root.
If you want to remove MATE versions, just run
aptitude remove caja mate-text-editor eom atril engrampa mate-terminal
as root.
Own experience with Linux since 2008.