Ubuntu Mate login experience ( dual boot )

[AlphaOmega]

I used to dual boot with Windows 7 & Unity. When 15.04 was released, I decided to uninstall Unity and try Ubuntu Mate. The boot experience however was pretty disappointing.

First, at Grub dual boot screen, when I select Ubuntu Mate and press enter, there is blank square which appears in grub box for couple of seconds and then it proceeds to the login screen.

Second, once I key in the password and it moves on to the desktop, the panel on top changes weirdly from grey to black. When its grey, the menu button has image/icon missing, all for couple of seconds, before it settles to the dark colour panel and the Menu button appears as it needs to be. I had the ‘Eleven’ interface selected, which has the docky… again this does not appear for close to 5 seconds once I am at the desktop…

The OS itself is wonderful. I get to relive my initial years of Ubuntu when all was well seemingly … If these minor glitches are taken care of … it will be an awesome user experience.

[wolfman]

Hi,

did you follow this advice when creating your disk?:

Burn ISO's at the slowest possible speed

Hi all, as the title suggests, some and/or many problems with your installation can be avoided by burning the ISO file at the "SLOWEST POSSIBLE SPEED", most if not all burner apps will automatically choose the fastest speed available for your disk burner drive so it is important before you commit to burn a CD/DVD that you select the menu tab which controls the burn speed and select the lowest number on offer. Your burner drive may well support a burn speed of 20 X for DVD and 60 X for CD's a…

Did you fully format your USB stick?:

How to use Unetbootin

If unetbootin doesn't work for you, try "mintstick". You should (can) also install udisks2 in Ubuntu 15.10 and higher!: http://pkgs.org/search/mintstick http://pkgs.org/download/udisks2 Firstly, download your preferred version of Ubuntu Mate OS, 32 or 64 Bit (if you are unsure, download the 32 Bit version) (Ubuntu/Debian/Voyager/PinguyOS etc) in the form of an ISO file, remember where you store the file!. (I am not talking about using the Unetbootin download function, I am talking about yo…

[Nope]

Hi AlphaOmega,

did you treat your problems with Wolfman’s medicine? Any results? I have the same issues and the system otherwise runs fine and stable. I would hate to have to set up the system again.

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