I was an old user of debian with xfce and later xubuntu i was a devoted xfce fan !
But ubuntu mate has won me !
Its fast its cool !
I have installed the newest amdgpu drivers and vdpau mesa fro the oibaf repository and i have the best
performance for my amd graphics card !
Everything is fast and cool !
Some thoughts:
Do something about tearing guys cause i need to have the compiz compositor to stop tearing
please configure compiz and disable the graying non responsive windows option,
also enable the scaling/expose future its cool.
synapse is not cool replace it with gnome-do is cooller and more stable
it would be cool for the lightdm to update its background with your active wallpaper
Congratulations for Ubuntu Mate its the best distro !
I have fetish by reinstaling diffrent linux distros. And can’t find many years what i need. Now i try ubuntu mate and it’s real awesome! All my needs done!
its problem, but compiz and 5 minutes setuping it solve that. One think what i haven’t - workspase widget don’t work with Compiz ( not scroll and move window ). But it’s so small problem and i can use key shortcarts for this.
i agree with @ouroumov - synapce more pretty and stable.
Thank you gyus for real awesome work! (community site its so pretty too )
Do you have a Nvidia driver? If you uncheck Sync to VBlank in Nvidia X Server Settings > OpenGL settings, it should fix the screen tearing issue you’re having.
Compton has tearing , except i should make some changes to the configuration file .
But i like compiz its cool and 3d gaming is fast as hell !
Synapse is not stable ! Not really !
Gnome-do is stable from my experience , synapse is anything but stable !
I’m talking about real freaking experience , synapse has betrayed me when i needed it most.
I’m absolutely negative about synapse !
You have the fetish everyone has !
I have tried every single distro so i can see what i like and what don’t
I hate totally fedora and korora ! Its a joke has nothing to offer anymore and gives you the worst linux experience you will ever have ! I recently tested the new version of korora and sucked epically ! The packaging system was broken from the start ! couldn’t update ! Cinnamon version has an awful performance not acceptable in any way.
I’m the unlucky owner of an amd graphics card but i can tell you for sure that catalyst/fglrx has lower performance than the amdgpu opensource driver, the opensource driver simply rocks ! perfect perfomance !
I’m not a distro hopper but tried a bunch during last two years, but as soon I found out that UM was an official flavour I installed it, couldn’t be happier. It’s better then ubuntu ever was with GNOME2. Have to say that I never got Synapse to work on my system, it always crashed so after a few reinstalls i ditched it completely.
I have Nvidia and can say - it’s not always work. Only with compiz or gnome shell i haven’t tearing. For all other system - i have tearing. In KDE i can solve problem with some bash startup script, for other WM i can’t solve it with any solution. In ubuntu mate i use compiz and all works fine.
For the same reason that there's an automatic rollback after X seconds when you enable Compton in MATE Tweak: it's not guaranteed to work on all machines. Some old systems don't have decent GPUs to begin with.
(community site its so pretty too )