I noticed that Free Geek switched to Mint for those PC's they sell a while ago.
Screenshots of mint mate seem to be a mix of win 10, win 11 and MacOS desktop stirred together with a strong win10 motif But the $64k question can you still run older GTK2.0 apps on the desktop? Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <plug-boun...@pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of W7DAL Sent: Friday, March 24, 2023 1:19 PM To: plug@pdxlinux.org Subject: Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu MATE LTS 3 years vs 5 for non-LTS 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: > > --------------------- > 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. >
