I used Ubuntu Mate as my main OS ever since it was a thing. But a year ago, I decided to try PopOS. What compelled me was a claim it made about being a good data science OS and better management of drivers. I did not find that to be the case at all. I used PopOS exclusively for 6 months to give it a good shot. It's a decent OS, but I did run into some quirky system glitches. It got to the point where I just missed the simplicity of Ubuntu Mate. So I switched back. I just can't stay away from you guys...
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I bought a System 76 laptop. I was totally frustrated with the desktop because it was built on gnome 3. I only made it two or three months before wiping the hard drive and installing Mate. I know they just came out with a new Cosmic desktop which written in Rust, but it is still based on Gnome 3 so no thank you.
Welcome back.
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Yes, that's it! You nailed it. It wasn't so much the PopOS pieces I was frustrated with, rather it was more the gnome 3 pieces. It's good to be back.
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My story is a bit different in detail and the same in its essence. I found Ubuntu 8.04 to be the first really usable desktop and had leaved M$ world. Ubuntu 10.04 desktop was virtually perfect. Since then Unity came and I spent several years trying to find another desktop implementation I could get along with. Finally, it was Ubuntu Mate I felt myself to be at home again.
Many thanks to Martin Wimpress and UM community for that!
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That brings back such good memories. I loved all the Ubuntu LTS's in the early days. I started using UM since 14.04. If I recall correctly, I heard about through an episode of a show from Jupiter Broadcasting. I think Wimpy must have been co-host or something. Good times!
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Are you having issues with the applets and the icons on top and such? For example, are you getting blue boundaries or whatever around icons on the panels?
I think you might have posted to the wrong thread? Though ironically it's the one thing right now with computer is random missing Plank dock icons: Some Plank icons disappear after updating