New user's first impressions

[lah7]

Welcome, and thanks for the feedback!

@Aegir81

Boutique seems to have a limited amount of apps.

@MusicalCoder's post above, plus: The new version of Software Boutique (v2.0) will be become a software centre, being able to install and discover the entire catalogue of software.

Till then, there is a More Software section that lets you install an actual software centre like GNOME Software or a package manager like Synaptic.

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@Aegir81

It's really green after the first boot.

Some like the green, some might not. Fortunately, there are many GTK3 themes that work under MATE. It would be quite nice to have themes more discoverable in Welcome/Boutique.

We have some colour variants of the themes under testing that might be of interest:

Colour variants of Ambiant/Radiant-MATE themes

I owe a thank you to @Cerise for sparking interest in this idea last week. ubuntu-mate-colours is now shaping up quite well, but still has areas for improvement. If anyone would like to give it a test run: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lah7/ubuntu-mate-colours sudo apt install ubuntu-mate-colours-all // or -aqua, -blue, -red, etc See the README for colours or if you'd like to create your own: Any issues, please report to the Issues page -- there's also the opportunity to help out with co…

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@Aegir81

the scaling options for the high DPI screen are limited

My understanding are technical limitations with "fractional scaling" which would provide scaling between 1x and 2x, like 1.5x. It is experimental and a shared problem across a few desktop environments, and really something that will be solved when future technologies like Wayland become more prominent.