What's up, MATE!

Made a Linux Mint MATE install today, on the beloved, sturdy, heavy and really Sony Vaio, need to start looking for options for the upcoming end of shelf life of Lucid Lynx... So there is this or Scientific Linux.

Scientific Linux I know, and I have been using a lot, even as my main day to day distro. but I wanted to take a look at how the MATE thing looked like on Mint.
I have to say it looks awesome, it even performs quite well on the ultra crappy Sony Vaio I use for some testing.
Right now I'm struggling to get the MATE version of the Global Menu up & running... Things doesn't look good...