I am a “newbie” or relatively new to Linux and I find:
I often forget that the Linux community is a little larger than the local community collage online chat rooms and there are probably more than few fore whom English is not their first language. Maybe You?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that video was in English, but there are Spanish and German? (I thought I saw) available as well. I have watched several foreign language videos, some of the better ones use background music and foreign language subtitles.
While a picture can be worth a thousand words, especially one with a usable line command,
as long as the eyes work, I believe a" video" is priceless in any language for seeing how an OS works and looks before installing.
I watched a lot of reviews of every new (and quite a few older) Linux OS I could find, in any language, before choosing Mate. I plan on using the system for the duration of it support.
I knew when I saw first say Mate it felt familiar to me but did not know from where. I see it is designed to look like a windows product. I installed windows 8 when it first came out and my children begged me to remove it from the shared desktop pc so back to Windows 7 Pro it was. I never used Windows 8 enough to even remember what it looked like. Loading up my “play puppy” linux this morning, I figured it out. My play puppy is a slightly modified version of 5.50 MacPup. The Mate default home screen (dock centered on Bottom) looks similar to 5.50 MacPup, which is based on enlightenment e17 theme. Having used this puppy since it came out I have logged more hours on it than any other Linux OS, no wonder I liked Ubuntu Mate.