Yep that’s the stuff. I’m not just talking about the welcome screen on UM, I’m talking about things like tilda, synapse, etc - unnecessary stuff. How do I know they are unnecessary?.. because they’ve been removed from subsequent versions of UM, only to be replaced by other unnecessary stuff.
It’s much harder to remove packages and their dependencies from an installation than it is to manually install them.
Again I don’t want to focus on the welcome screen, and it is not my intention to upset anyone (nobody likes their work criticized), but it is the most in your face example of what is wrong with UM. Every time it loads I let out a swear word.
Lubuntu doesn’t have a welcome screen. Instead it has an extensive online wiki. This can easily be edited by anyone and gives a real community feel to lubuntu. Contrast this with Ubuntu-Mate. There is no online wiki. Instead, people have to request changes to the welcome screen. Users have to wait for these changes to be made by lah7, for which he receives a payment/“donation”. If UM implemented an online wiki, Holgerrpl could write his own section of the wiki, rather than starting this thread.
I understand the attraction of mate-tweak, but it should be installed manually by the user. It could have recommended package dependencies for plank, HUD, global menu etc so these don’t have to be on a standard UM install.
I know I’m probably going against the grain of most users on here, but since you voted for the most hideous wallpaper your judgement really can’t be trusted