Caja Alternatives

caja reviews and mentions

• Systemd Rolling Out "run0" As sudo Alternative
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2024

  I don't know if you are DE shopping, but I've been very happy for the past few years with the MATE Desktop Environment, which "...is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems."

  https://mate-desktop.org/

  Among a great number of things I really like, I will mention that Caja, the MATE version of GNOME 2's Nautilus file manager, still can still be switched to spatial mode.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_file_manager

  Generally speaking, I too really liked GNOME 2.32 and its predecessors, and, as far as I'm concerned, MATE is as it describes itself.

• Lobotomizing Gnome
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023

  I agree that there is a balance between customization and "cleanness" in design and implementation.

  However, I think the GNOME 3 and 4 designers went too far and alienated many users:

  https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-finds-gnome-3-4...

  https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-42-the-nonsense-continues-...

  https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/wte7tr/gnomes_design...

  https://linuxreviews.org/GNOME_Developers_have_Made_Their_Mo...

  https://www.osnews.com/story/133955/gnome-to-prevent-theming...

  When a designer's "coherent vision" eclipses the needs of the software's users then users get frustrated and either fork the project or go to another project. MATE (https://mate-desktop.org/), Cinnamon (https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon), and Unity (https://unityd.org/) exist largely because of how far the GNOME 3 designers went and how they were not willing to compromise their "coherent vision":

  https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121162

  https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1910

  https://web.archive.org/web/20101129161856/http://www.pcworl...

• Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
  4 projects | /r/linux | 27 Jun 2023
• Very New to Linux
  2 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 3 Jun 2023

  MATE

• I'm going to leave Windows to move permanently to Linux Fedora (I've been using Windows + Ubuntu for several years now), can you help me with some questions about Fedora?
  6 projects | /r/Fedora | 29 May 2023

  Mate https://mate-desktop.org/ would be decent for GTK apps. https://www.gtk.org

• Git migration completed
  2 projects | /r/archlinux | 21 May 2023

  Arch devs endorsing MATE 😮

• I Still Use Windows 95 (archived, 2008)
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2023

  > Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I'd love a simple, opinionated WM that takes the features we know are useful today (workspaces, expo mode, sensible file manager layouts, system trays) and gives them a color-adjustable window theme inspired by 90's aesthetics, with minimal compositing that can run fast on hardware as minimal as a prototype RISC-V board. Or really, what we need is a truly minimal DE. Something that doesn't care about GTK or Qt or Kvantum, and stays lean.

  Mate desktop environment in my opinion comes closest to the simplicity of the Windows 95/GNOME 2 environments of the old: https://mate-desktop.org/.

  Not sure how hardware-frugal it is since maintaining it under GTK 2 was not feasible and it's now developed against GTK 3 (with still maintaining the look and feel of GNOME 2).

• Still unsure as to how this managed to happen 😖
  1 project | /r/yerbamate | 17 Apr 2023

  Some people deliberately put mate on their PCs.

• Release Channel 1.50.114
  2 projects | /r/brave_browser | 5 Apr 2023
• Any advice on Ubuntu MATE?
  1 project | /r/UbuntuMATE | 1 Apr 2023

  I have been using MATE for a couple of years now on an Intel Mac mini and it works... mostly. Things I am not a fan of: 1) Snap packages. For anyone that chimes in about how wonderful they are I have yet to see any evidence of that and, please, do show me how you launch OpenShot Video Editor because, well, it doesn't. 2) X-Windows. I'm sorry, but this should be brain-dead simple as running xhost+ on the device you want to receive the X application on, ssh to the other machine with -Y -C flags so you don't have to set the display variable (and you get compression) and then launch the application and it appears on the desktop session you are using. I've been doing this with UNIX machines since the first week I used one in 1992 or so (only I used telnet and set my display instead of using ssh but that's not the point). Anyway, it should work but almost never does without a mind-numbing around my crap to deal with. I keep a Raspberry Pi 4 running just for this purpose oh and ... 3) VNC. Should work. Does not without a lot of tinkering. Also 4) I recall that I had to take some extra steps so that users on the same MATE box could not see the contents of one another's home directories but this was a while back. The fact that it was ever set to allow users on the same system to view the contents of each other's home directories was and is insane.

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