[quote=âveggrower, post:21, topic:14367, full:trueâ]
What you are describing is functionality that belongs in a package manager. What does a welcome screen have to do with fixing a broken package?[/quote]
This is exactly why Ubuntu MATE Welcome screen is such a valuable asset and ahead of everyone else. Instead of a bunch of needless links to community websites, like what everyone else does, it also offers you quick fix options that are well described and at the distance of a button or a copy paste.
Boy, you really are on a mission, arenât you? What on earth are you talking about?
What does it matter how I or anyone else came to get broken packages within minutes of first installing an unfamiliar operating system? How could I even remember something that happened so long ago. We are talking about quick fixing solution at the distance of your fingertips without scouring the internet or begging for help on a forum.
You need to make a more serious effort. For peteâs sake. Your argumentation is bordering the ridiculous at this point.
Where is it in all these years?
[quote=âveggrower, post:21, topic:14367, full:trueâ]
Iâll repeat again, I donât just want to focus on welcome (weâre never going to agree). Can we agree that synaptic can be culled?[/quote]
No we cannot agree, for peteâs sake! Synaptic is not installed by default with Ubuntu MATE. It doesnât matter. And if you donât like the Welcome Screen or the Software Boutique, you can completely ignore them, even hiding them from the menu. Pretty soon made even more easy when MenuLibre becomes the default menu manager.
What you donât want to understand is that you are asking to remove the two most defining packages of the Ubuntu MATE distribution. And two of the most beloved ones (for reasons that in your little time among us you completely fail to grasp). This is even more evidenced by your argumentation. And you make claims and demand-like requests from a position of âignoranceâ, as if a distribution should fit your particular needs and lets screw everyone else.
If you like streamlined distributions with little in the way of homegrown solutions/applications, Ubuntu MATE is not for you. And I doubt any Ubuntu-based distro will ever be. You need to head on to Arch, Void, or Solus perhaps. I can promise you one thing though, no matter your efforts here the Welcome Screen and the Software Boutique will not be going anywhere, if you even cared to read their roadmaps.