I’ve long used Fedora as my distro of choice. I’ve had short hops across the Linux landscape but always land back. I’m intrigued by the Snap packaging.
Does Ubuntu Mate offer a cut down image for installation? Many of the programs installed on the 16.04 and Daily ISO’s that I’ve tried I neither use nor want installed. I would rather add something if I need it than leave it for a possible attack surface.
The one feature that drives me back to Fedora, besides the security of a large company like Red Hat, is a more a Gnome feature.
The activities layout, with the single tap of the Superkey, is the most used feature and I cannot live without it. It works on Fedora 100% every time. Can I replicate this functionality using the Fedora layout with the Mate Tweak?
I don’t know of smaller Ubuntu MATE-specific image, but you can uninstall nearly everything. The first thing I typically do after installing (before downloading updates!) is something like
Just watch for anything unintentional before you accept the uninstall. I think some core apps can’t be removed, but it’s a small list. (With 16.04 and before, the meta-package ubuntu-mate-desktop will get removed if you remove built-in apps, which is not a real problem, but it’s been resolved in 16.10 and newer.)
As you say, the Activities Overview is really more of a GNOME 3 feature than a Fedora-specific feature. If you really want that, you probably want Ubuntu GNOME! I don’t know of anything for MATE that matches it completely, since it’s an combination of a launcher, an app dock/menu and window overview. There are menus, like the in-development Brisk Menu and launchers, like Synapse and Albert (which I use), which you may be able to bind to the super key.
Ubuntu Gnome is a wasteland. The last update to their blog was September of 2016. I can’t name who runs the project let alone any contributors of note.
Martin does such a good job of updating and outreach I feel like I’m in good hands with the future of the project, if I were to move in this direction.
But it looks more like classical paradigm of what a menu is.
If you're looking for expose open windows then compiz can help, but you will not find out the same way as Gnome 3 does.
I guess kde can maybe do a similar job as Gnome 3 after some customizations and still more as you can also keep classics desktop's paradigms. Ubuntu Mate is maybe more in that way - Classical with a lot of customizations available and a test of ... something special
Ubuntu-Mate definetly works, if you want something like a 1 key settings we have that just add “advanced menu” to the main menubar if is a key shortcuts we also have it in control center if not wrong.
Hope you like ubuntu-mate, wimpy is leading the project in the right direction in my opinion too.
