https://trisquel.info/en/return-freedom-fridays-development-status-release-plans-and-ways-help
"The main reason for this change was that GNOME dropped support for their
legacy desktop, which retained the GNOME 2.x user experience and didn't
require 3D composition -- a feature that in many computers would still need
non-free software to run at full speed. MATE provides a perfect drop-in
replacement, it is very light and stable and it retains all the user
experience design that we are used to from previous Trisquel releases."
"May be XFCE?"
They wouldn't be able to say "it retains all the user experience design that
we are used to from previous Trisquel releases."
