Simple installers for polishing MATE (on Arch Linux) that:
- Installs extra repositories for easy finding of applications using the help of Chaotic AUR and Arch AUR (with the YAY command);
- Installs bare essentials, like: Chromium, LibreOffice, VLC;
- Adds Windows compatability by adding Wine, SMB and NTFS support to Caja;
- Beautifies MATE with CutefishOS wallpapers, basic Compiz animations, BriskMenu and Yaru theme components.
(Photo attached is a installation of LightNexus, all thanks to the installers.)
This project was initially made as a way for me to simplify installing and pre-configuring MATE to feel similar as 🍎, yet looking unique in its own way and also using least resources as possible. (Tested on a HP ProBook 6530b, running a Intel® Core™ 2 Duo P8400 Processor with 4 GB RAM, no issues)
Minimum system requirements:
- 64-bit CPU/SOC
- 2 GB of RAM
- 8 GB of space (After installation, the whole OS, uncleaned takes up 1,5 GB, so having some headroom would be nice)
- Internet connectivity (only for the installation and web browsing)
The Part 1 script needs to be transferred over a USB stick or downloading it with wget, while the Part 2 download instructions are shown at the end of Part 1.