Ubuntu MATE 24.10 is out! 
You can get the download 
and read the release notes below 
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Thank you, @Wimpy, for this. I actually came here to post about something I'd observed in the Ubuntu MATE 24.10 beta, but I'm downloading the "official" ISO as I type this, so hopefully everything is OK now. However, in the name of feedback and wanting to help, I will share what I found here. See picture below. (You know what they say - a picture is worth a thousand words.) I also will share that I still saw the boundary line around the Inhibit Applet icon when I first installed the beta (but that stopped happening after a reboot, though ... ? I didn't spend too long with the beta). In any case, I hope the "official" ISO has everything fixed. Thank you so much again. I sincerely mean that. I think MATE by itself has the best desktop design. Want to see a bug-free MATE desktop. Nothing wrong with that. Keep it up.
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I'm humanity's scientist saver.. Ubuntu Mate 19 and 20 are the only OS's I can run on my 100 hard drives without hackers getting into the computers and making messes.. Mate runs smooth, clean, and quiet, perfect for creativity, music editing, pix editing, and science writing..
The inquisition is trying to murder me.. They fear truth.. See why: Read my notes as 'Demanding Truth' in 'JustLinux Forum' to find out what and why..
I love Mate OS's..
Could Mate make an animated dragon desktop handler..?
I want to see a new kind of animated desktop handler..
See: Pinterest 'mystical screaming dragon'..
I want a sleeping animated three headed dragon on the desktop.. Each head is configured to a specific program.. When the cursor moves close to a head, that associated program launches after the dragon head jumps into action, lunging screaming fierce, viciously biting the cursor.. The associated program launches...
When that program is clicked off, its dragon head suddenly enters from the side of the screen lightning fast, blasting fire, fiercely screaming bludy-hell blue-murder at the window, exploding it into a sudden splash burst explosive blast of swirling rising fiery sparks like how a sudden burst of airborne glowing cinders happen when you toss a large piece of firewood into a campfire..
'Maya' cinema special effects software could do it...
After the blast, the fire and sparks clear, and the three dragon heads calm down, and settle down, close their eyes, and go back to sleep...
All features of the dragon heads are customizable: dragon types, shapes, sizes, designs, colors, skin tones, fangs, eyes, lighting, positioning, type of scream, type of fire, color of fire, backgrounds, standing or flying dragon, quantity of dragon heads.. Call it 'My Dragon Mate'..
Thanks for the headsup on the new Mate 24.. I hope it bypasses microsoft's damages to Ubuntu.. It's downloading right now.. I boycott canonical updates since microsoft acquired it.. I hope this Mate 24 runs good, safe, and secure without updates, without the messes microsoft did to Ubuntu.. Does Mate have an updates source that isn't associated in any way with microsoft's insanity and their criminal canonical intrusionware..?
Try a Mate 19.. Note that the security is still in it, and the OS is user friendly.. Now try an Ubuntu 22 related distro.. Note that all the security and user friendly features have been hidden or removed, and the OS is not user friendly.. Note that 'encrypt the install' has been hidden or removed...
Would be nice if Mate would dump Firefox in favor of Librewolf, and dump UFW in favor of Portmaster.. Then we would have a safe and secure user friendly Mate OS... We should have the option of not installing all that crapware at install...
The new Mate ISO should have the option of blocking and boycotting the crapware at install: Rsync, Bluetooth, Firefox, UFW, Transmission, Hexchat, and LibreOffice.. Those hacker corrupted programs cannot be trusted.. I dump them at first boot.. Hell's Hackers have exploited them in the past to damage my files and destroy my OS's to stifle and block truth...
Can Mate somehow totally 100% segregate and sever itself from microft's Linux, and microsoft's canonical before microsoft kills Linux to kill the competition..?
YouTube surf: Aztec Healing Secret Soft Pan Flute Music for Body- Spirit -26 Soul - 4K
Don't know what else to say. I've done all I can as an end user and advocate for MATE. I've reported the bug on Launchpad. I've reported it on this forum. I e-mailed you. Yeah. I honestly don't know why this is happening or why it hasn't been fixed. I'm gonna keep using Linux Mint as my daily driver until MATE is fixed. Until then, I'm done. I truly am. Thank you.
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Sorry for the novice question, but I tried the update process but it said there is no new LTS version. My understanding is the regular release schedule is every 6mos while LTS is every 2 years. Is it worth it to switch to this version or should I stick with the LTS version? Is it just a matter of preference?
Generally speaking, if you don't have a reason to update, then you probably shouldn't.
Reasons you might is newer hardware, specific functionality needed, etc.
I don't normally install non LTS versions but have for newer hardware and a raspberry pi image that had performance that leapfrogged the current (at the time) LTS.
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Nice find - I can see how that would be annoying! I'm just about to install 24.04, I'm always slow to upgrade and I stick (mostly) to LTS releases.
I hope the bug you identified can be fixed soon. I know it can be a painful wait and for what seems like low-hanging fruit (that wasn't a problem before).
Open source is extremely cut-throat. There's a business side to it that seems to go under-acknowledged. Projects can go stale if they don't have enough traction with users and funding sources (either funding from users, public funds, or private investment/partnerships). It's not pretty. With Manjaro dropping its community MATE edition, there are signs its a rocky road ahead.
I'm incredibly grateful to have Ubuntu MATE. If it can't be sustained without unreasonable sacrifice on the part of the team - then I hope that means something just as excellent has taken its place.
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Why do I see this in my top panel ??
The 3 white circles on the right
W
Those white circles are the keylock indicators (capslock, numlock, scrollock)
You can remove them if you want to, or change the color by choosing a different icon-theme
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I wouldn't pay attention to that, the truth is that I could only see it with a magnifying glass 
, in fact that error doesn't appear on my computer with Ubuntu Mate LTS
Thanks for replying. Sorry for the late response, too. Yeah. Honestly, if this was any other bug that I could rectify on my own by figuring out a workaround or could ignore if it was tucked far enough deep within the OS, then I wouldn't probably say anything. Or just mention it or make a simple bug report, and move on. But with this specific bug, it is so "in-your-face" and interferes with the general enjoyment of the OS itself. I felt compelled to be assertive about the whole thing and saying something. I'm shocked it wasn't spotted before release. Or addressed. I don't know. But it's there. It's there all the time. Very annoying and disruptive. Disappointed that @Wimpy hasn't said anything about it, or taken any (apparent) action. (Emphasis: "apparent.")
I hope they fix it, though. Time will tell.
If MATE really isn't working out for you, perhaps pivot to Cinnamon. I know that Mint (obviously) has Cinnamon - and is similar to Ubuntu, and Debian has a Cinnamon ISO, too. There's also Arch-based distributions with Cinnamon, e.g. Manjaro.
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There is Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity, and Xubuntu besides Ubuntu Mate. Plus like Mint and Zorin there are plenty of other Ubuntu based OS's with different desktops.
One should be able to find an Ubuntu desktop that works well for them and they like. Good Luck. The only thing I will add is you won't find another Forum as good as this one.
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