MATE

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 by The MATE team; according to their manifesto they aim to keep a traditional desktop, maintain an open development model, have an open relationship with GNU/Linux distributions and also serve as a good alternative for lower end hardware.

Layman
First, you need to obtain layman to be able to get the MATE overlay; follow the Layman article to install it, then run the following command:

MATE
To install MATE, you can then run the following command:

More instructions will follow as this article gets expanded.