ya I add some things from aur myself, I like that repository to much, always have.
it's like being a kid in a candy store.
Remember mate is a community project over there also and since it's basically run by mint (so I take it) it should run better on mint.
I do think it might be mate issue with arch base or there missing simethings to make it run properly, check out the forum about it, it's only been been out since march so there is bound to be bugs.
It seems to be a lot harder to make an iso with arch based distros.
I reformatted my tablet a total of 3 times so far trying to get linux to run on it
Got close with gnuroot debian but it installled on the main memory instead of the sdcard so it ran out of memory
linux deploy installs on the sdcard but having issues with partition fails, once it corrupted the sdcard so had to wipe it out again and vnc issues, I might just give this tablet to the wife soon if it keeps failing, I have no need for a tablet if I can't get linux to run on it.
you should give it a go with xfce since it's one of there main systems and more stable you might have better luck, there is more support for it also.
Just watch out for the network manager, it cuts out the odd time.
I have mine pinned at 1.4.6 for the adapter since 1.8 had issues for me.
if it cuts out you can do this
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
reboot
to get it going again, I also put nm-applet in the start up applications to help it out.
