Whilst I'd prefer people to visit Martin's post on Ubuntu Discourse; I've pasted it here should any not want to visit that site, so as to get the largest audience possible for the request for help.
I certainly don't have those kind of skills. Is this then end of Ubuntu Mate? I hope not, but if it is I will move on to Mint Mate when that happens, it is the closet to Ubuntu Mate I have found. The thing I would miss the most would be this forum. Well if that happens I will stay until the last minute.
No it is not.
Technically this is my 'second reply', but I've deleted my first, which you may have briefly seen (before I noticed what I was quoting from, link I used & thus deleted it), but I was trying to quote from a 'not yet public' post which shows that the Ubuntu MATE flavor still has 'hope'.
I'll add more if/when I can.
I hope not. It is the best OS I have ever used with the best forum ever. Will Martin still be working on the Mate desktop, or is he off on other projects?
I hope not, too. The ability to make it look like however I want-- that's a great thing (I don't remember stock Ubuntu or Peppermint having that ability). I used stock Ubuntu back when Windows XP EOLd, and Peppermint back in 2018 for a while-- had a great forum, too. I have Latte dock and worked on Github to get Cairo Dock working again, after not having CD work for a long time--but the Dock has people working on it again. Then there's also Plank ( a Mac-like look) and Redmond. Or, I can make the desktop look like Unity. I can do all sorts of combinations to create whatever I want. I use the background switcher, Variety, which also has a big clock/ date that I can easily see and can make appear however I want, through tweaking the variety.conf file; having the clock/ date onscreen, I can also use the looks provided by Tweak--Traditional, Contemporary and Familiar. I also like the Boutique, and am just going to stay on Jammy until 2032, or if I am forced to another OS.
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