[GTALUG] which fits in better with Gnome3 -- MATE or Cinnamon?

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

In my world (mostly Fedora), the normal desktop is Gnome3, including its 
shell.

Sometimes people ask me for a good old desktop, and I know the answer must 
be MATE or Cinnamon.

Originally MATE was a fork of GNOME 2 and so I assumed that it would 
conflict with an already-installed Gnome 3 in some ways.

Since Cinnamon was a fork of Gnome 3, I similarly assumed it would 
co-exist well with Gnome 3.

I'm not sure of that any longer after reading the wikipedia pages.

Some criteria for co-existance:

- (pretty basic) can both be installed at one time.  So no make conflicts.

- (asperational) installed GNOME applications can run under the other 
  shell

- (asperational) installed applications for the other environment can run 
  under the GNOME Shell

Most comparisons are old.  Here's a recent one, but it doesn't seem
that useful:
<https://www.slant.co/versus/1123/1125/~mate_vs_cinnamon>