The mysterious 'Saab' font

[computerguy]

@guiverc https://ubuntu-mate.community/u/guiverc :
Thanks for replying & your well meaning words.

I waited for NorbertX to see my reply - and it seems he has, so now...

Your reply above is actually off-topic for this thread IMO, and;
Frankly I am terminally worn out with any & all update & upgrade lecturing regarding ANY OS - but especially when it comes to Linux.

Yes - I am well aware of this:

Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS reaches end of life

All releases are QA-tested, it's a volunteer effort, and the people doing it use whatever hardware they have available to them. With more people stepping up to help, more issues may be detected, bugs raised & fixes worked out, but if issues aren't reported as bugs on a bug tracker (and also ideally testing-tracker), they don't exist (and for sure can't be fixed). To me I get the feeling you have an issue with the kernel (18.04 using the GA kernel uses 4.15), 18.10 used 4.18, 19.04 used 5.0, 1…

And my response is shown here:

Cannot change ownership on some USB sticks?

@Lake_Lucian: It is NOT that Ubuntu is unfriendly, specifically; It -is- that ALL Linux distros are festooned with all sorts of 'security' things which can be 'root only' - hidden well - or very arcane, like what it takes to allow access to an Android device connected via USB. My personal POV on this is that there is such a thing as being... TOO SECURE !!! Contrasted to that - as a devout, daily user of Ubuntu Mate - its wonderful stability & reliability (NO BSODs or random data losses - EV…

And as for updating AND upgrading, the title here really aims at my POV on both aspects of keeping an OS in operation:

Severe upgrade disappointments

Ferrrry Eeeenterestink !! I posted my latest query here ~4 days back AFTER emailing the Canonical folks asking how to get & use ESM. Neither effort has brought me any new info. The absence of more info seems to point out that nobody here has tried this to keep 18.04.x, AND - that Canonical really cannot be bothered to help out users who may wish to throw money at them in the interests of continuity. As Mr. Spock was known to say: Fascinating.

Personally speaking=>
Back before I gave up my occupation of supporting many users of that 'other' OS, all of them either quit changing things and stood with XP, or stayed with me while I changed all of them over to using U/M, and AFAIK, the largest commercial network I used to support STILL uses XP for its entire operation including file storage and POS stations.
(I now only assist U/M users, thankfully.)

With the exception of 1 U/M user who literally died of old age (~90 y/o), ALL those whom I still support have really nice installations of U/M 20.04.x now, and are delighted with their PCs and especially love the lack of problems anymore, thereby.

Given the number of times that I've seen U/M updating go FUBAR - including 2 recent efforts from 20.04.2 to 20.04.3 wherein both NBs had perfectly working wifi & wired ethernet BEFORE vs. the ethernet vanishing completely & having ONLY wifi afterwards;
I just say=> Meh.

Updating my 18.04.x 'daily driver' box has also brought me some severe problems before - and when I ran the upgrade for 20.04 on it what came out of that effort was so completely FUBAR as to be 100% useless - so back to 18.04 it went - and there it shall stay until I make another well tested & proven installation of 20.04.x which is totally ready via my work box, 100% separately.

Fortunately I am the sort who prefers to have the umbrella AND the hooded rainjacket, so restoring when things go badly from a full system image is the quick fix - always.

I am in ZERO hurry to participate in any further see-cure-it-tay updates on my own most used PC & not the least bit concerned given that most Linux distros are incredibly wonderful without all that gimcrackery.

But lest I come across as a nerdy ingrate:
Thanks very much for caring enough to poke about the 'need' to update here.

(I do so wish that there could be underlining here...)