JamieA bug in MATE Desktop has decided for me. My new distro and desktop is #Debian with #XFCE. Things are very good. I'm still using a bunch of MATE apps like Caja (file manager), Engrampa (archiver), Atril (document viewer) but those all integrate fine. I kinda wish #LinuxMint would move to #LMDE as the main distro, Debian could do with the extra polish and settings and helper apps.
krejgo@suprjami have you looked at Pantheon desktop?
@craige I have: https://superjamie.github.io/2022/12/24/distro-surfing-2022
I thought the built in apps weren't the best and it would take a lot of customisation to be ideal for me. XFCE 4.18 does pretty much everything I want with minimal tweaking or interruption.