Mate Your Forensics Desktop Buddy There has been a casualty in the Linux Desktop over the past year or two: forensics. Now, Im not saying forensics cant be conducted from a modern Linux desktop environment like Gnome3 or Unity, but those environments do make it more difficult. First, they are less configurable and second, they make it difficult to display more than one window at a time. What might be a simple, clean interface to a desktop user is a hindrance to a forensics practitioner. As a result, I switched to XFCE. Its always been attractive to me because of its simplicity and size, and it does a lot of things right. But its a little rough around the edges. The various settings windows are not well integrated, and a new user can easily become lost and frustrated. More importantly, Thunar, the default file manager, is a little weak for exploring file systems from digital discovery point-of-view. While Meet Mate Fortunately, fo...