Try*Linux Mint Mate* latest version. They have finally made Linux user
friendly to the point I'm comfortable recommending it to non-tekkie
friends. I've been following Linux from the earliest days.
Good Luck!
-Dave
On 3/24/2023 12:43 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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:
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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.
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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.
