That's the main reason, yes, but I just liked that feel much better than the purple and orange theme aswell. Those are mostly aesthetics though. You can still use MATE, which hopefully isn't as buggy as it was when I used it.
Gnome fallback?I know there's a gnome 2 thing around
Hey, guys. I need an operating system that will work well with a computer with these specs:Also, try to keep it as close to Arch as possible, please.
manjaro?
i need something different, i use manjaro all the time and on this pc it has problems.
Well then anything arch-based will probably have the same problems unless it was a specific package.Try Debian. It is (as mentioned in the op) completely vanilla. It can be molded into anything you want it to be.
What don't you like about arch?
Arch's community is an starfish
I don't like the fact that Arch's community is an starfish, though I love its flexibility and it runs great (usually) on most of my computers
Pff, rm -rf / is for pussies. Real men use shred -fz /