How to install Mate Desktop in Linux Mint cinnamon

Linux Mint has two versions, cinnamon version is more beautiful, consumption resources are high, mate version of the resource requirements are lower, if you install the cinnamon version, want to switch to the Mate version and do not want to reinstall the system, to see this experience.

Method/Step

Open Menu--"System management--" software manager

Enter Mint-meta-mate in the search box, appear as shown in the search results, double-click to click in the installation, enter the password, waiting for installation completed.

(If this is the command line, you can perform sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install mint-meta-mate)

After the installation is complete, log off the current user, log in again (of course, restart is OK), and at logon, select Mate in the login option

OK, enter Mate desktop environment, enjoy it!!