The last time i used MATE it was from my Ubuntu/Mint times a decade or more ago.
I don't know how it is today, I only used with X, assumption, but i believe that KDE Plasma have the best and newest support for Wayland.

Last scrot for the Plasma 5.* series.
Thanks to l4k1 for Wings-Dark-Global that made KDE Plasma even more accomplished.

OptiPlex-330 4GB Mem 3.3Ghz from 2007. After 15 years of use, finally dead. R.I.P.

It started with WindowsXP/7. 2012 Ubuntu, Linux Mint, #!, Debian. Since 2017 or so it held Devuan for five years, two on testing.
The pic above and this later are the last photo for memory.
A week ago i updated it successfully and poweroff.

Today once i pressed start front button i saw the static orange lights no# 3 and 4, Also the front led indicator it appear on orange not green.
I don't get a beep from system once i powered on so i can blame the ram. RAM i believe it was OK by the tests i did few months ago. So, once i wake up the system i heard two strong fan spining then a dead silence. I suspect the motherboard or power supply laid to rest. I could take it somewhere to see who's parts failing, i think being too old it's not worth at all. So i let it go for the best. Tomorrow ready for scrap. Bye bye OptiPlex-330.

OptiPlex-5080 I haven't installed Devuan yet, one day i will on this or other tower.
Therefore, I will be absent with my scrots posts. However, I will be present as a member to comment others.

Nearly done with Xfce

Edit:
Out of nowhere, for no serious reason cast away Fedora for openSUSE Tumbleweed.
If everything goes fine, I'll keep it until can walk...

Good job!

XFCE A little more complete while staying minimalist.

minimalistic-wallpapers

XFCE

Haven't used a DE on many years to my old Core2 Duo. I made a check yesterday to XFCE following Devuan Minimal XFCE install
I installed the whole first part, and xfce4-appfinder from 2nd part.
The rest of adds from XFCE i don't need it, mostly have it from gnome apps or selective independent tools.

This is really bare-bone 330MB, well suited for old desktops.

Used Orchis-theme / Tela-icon / Bibata-cursor / Joe(s) Motohashi(c) background. I will keep this until it works.

The last E8600 Core 2 Duo that i still own was the most powerful processor back in the day (a decade ago).

With the final removal of the Mesa i915 dri maybe it's time to say Adieu! although i really find it difficult to leave it as usually i break and fix many things on this desktop

Any time, post any feedback or scrot if you made anything with mutter alone 

To stick on the topic

Dark Nord

Themes/Icon Nordic/Nordzy
Fonts GUI/Term mononoki/bigblue
Wallpaper game nordified with ImageGoNord

Thanks for sharing the zram parts, I will start researching and using it as it does not come out anything good with swap alone when it comes to low resources hardware.

Yes, you can use mutter alone, but better have it with tint2 because doesn't come with panel and don't have shortcuts for launch stuff.

This is how i started mutter from .xinitrc

if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
    eval "$(dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session)"
fi

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
tint2 &
exec mutter

dconf-editor tool helps to set cursors, themes, icons and other mutter features instantly.

No way, GNOME with 2G memory? OK, I know it works, but slows down a bit after a few hours of works due to swap usages of hdd.
At least to me with 4GB memory happened.

I have done very recently the unorthodox way by installing only mutter with tint2 just for the testing sake. It was awesome experience.

Working with dconf-editor i managed to make interesting graphic adjustments on mutter wm. I just could not change the image of the desktop to the WM alone, despite the efforts of the editor or the commands i made.

I would be interested to know which path you followed to install your GNOME without shell?

Very fine achievement anyway.

Awesome Ogis1975, Alpine Linux is the most lightweight distro with one of the fastest package manager ever.