I tried transitioning from Scientific Linux to Redhat LTS (not "L" sadly). That went away.
Then I tried using Ubuntu Mate 20.04 LTS (horrid startup behaviors, but 22.04 is worse). I get this email today: --------------------- As of 30 April 2023 Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS has reached EOL (End of Life) and is no longer supported. Being a long term release (LTS), official Ubuntu flavors are only supported for **3 years**, as opposed to Ubuntu's 5 years. This means MATE components of your system will no longer receive updates after today, but foundational components will continue to receive security updates from Ubuntu. --------------------- Hrm. In Ubuntu-land, LTS long term support means less time supported. And today is April 30. So, sandwiched between way too many non-software engineering tasks, I'm transitioning to Debian Mate. So far, Debian is pain relief. No promise of LTS, but upgrades seem effortless and the dancing paperclips and snaps and gesture GUI are absent. Smaller RAM footprint, therefore I can keep using my "tall-screen" 3x4 laptops for their principal function, reading and writing A and A4 format documents. We'll see how this goes. I fear that gesture GUI (which requires steady hands, no tremor) will eventually take over the Linux desktop, so I may have less than a decade to complete important-to-the-world-IMHO keyboard-driven computing and writing tasks. Sigh. The world will not end with a bang, instead a "tweet". Keith L. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
