It is available with "zypper in patterns-mate-mate" but it no longer works.

The screen blinks every 2 seconds and the window menu is missing from every opened window.

I have a bugzilla opened on that - it worked perfectly in the alpha 15.5 but does not in 15.5.

Larry Rainey

On 21. 02. 23, 16:22, Larry Len Rainey wrote:

The Alpha version of 15.5 had MATE desktop as a choice. MATE is no longer offer nor is Cinnamon in 15.5. Some say MATE is stale - I say it is Mature, Stable, and relative bug free - what you want for a stable computer environment.

I still see mate in 15.5's inherited packages (from backports). So maybe it was only eliminated from the install media due to size constraints...

I assume you can add an online repo during installation and install both mate and cinnamon. (Or install after bootup.)