Newbie thoughts

[ouroumov]

Hi and welcome

@vegan_geek

I promptly send the information thinking this will assist the developers. So is this correct?

Yes, it sends useful information such as the stack trace.
(the stack of function calls leading up to a crash)

You can contribute bug reports on top of those you're sending when a program crashes.
(Not all bugs lead to crashes)
Bugs can be filed on lauchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate
Bugs can also be filed against individual MATE components as issues on github: MATE Desktop · GitHub or for Ubuntu MATE components on bitbucket: Bitbucket

You can contribute by helping fellow users on this forums or IRC (btw, that's a great way to learn too)

Also one of the easy things you can do is share your exact system specs on this thread:

Share your System Specs -- Super List

This is the place to share your system specifications. Objective: Curate a list of compatible hardware combinations for Ubuntu MATE. Gather Specifications with One Command inxi -ACDMNSG Be sure to highlight the output, and then place them into code tags: [image] Want to discuss someone's specs? If you see a post you'd like to discuss - click that post's date then "New Topic", or message the user. This is so we can keep this topic purely a listing of specs.