I decided to take Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS for a Spin

20 thoughts on “I decided to take Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS for a Spin”

• This news about Ubuntu 22.04 MATE bugs is really disappointing. I was looking forward to getting this running but it sounds like these issues still aren't fixed. I'm pretty sure all of Ubuntu's "flavor dev" teams are volunteer / unpaid so it's hard to know when these things will ever be resolved. Too bad because with a concerted push, Ubuntu MATE could easily outshine the parent distro IMHO.

• Does anyone know how to solve Lutris/Wine crashes in Ubuntu-MATE ? I've tried different win32 games and different versions (wine stable, wine staging, wineGE) 😢

• Finally i hear someone pronounce Ubuntu correctly, 99% of people pronounce it wrong

• I tried UbuntuMATE and installed it to an old dual core desktop and at first I was impressed with it but shortly afterwards I started to experience slowdowns and bugs, particularity desktop crashes where I click on certain things or visit certain sites that caused the computer to blank screen back to the UbuntuMATE login screen. It became such an issue I decided to wipe the drive and install Chrome OS instead and the machine has worked very well ever since. Chrome OS is now my first choice over pretty much any other Linux OS now. New Linux distros are not as good as they once were in my experience. .

• Since 2020, my go-to distro was Ubuntu Mate. It was a good blend of low-impact UI, with a lot of configuration possibilities. I used the Redmond setting. U.Mate 20.04 performed well on powerful and older computers alike, I sometimes installed for friends.
  When I tested Ubuntu Mate 22.04 LTS, I was disappointed. These 3 flaws struck me:
  1. In the Redmond setting, the Advanced Mate Menu was replaced by the Brisk Menu. But that didn't offer the same possibilities as the AMM. E.g. I noticed that there is no easy way, using the Brisk menu, to add shortcuts to programs to the Redmond layout panel. Why replace something with an less-capable component?
  2. Did you know you can't add new users to an existing install of U.Mate 22.04? The module to add users is just missing. I'm curious about the reasoning behind that.
  3. No login control. The login screen of Ubuntu Mate 22.04 is now fixed and un-changeable. You can't change the background any more, you can't let people in without password, and you can't hide specific users. All this you could do with the 20.04 old 'Login Window'.
  The above 3 examples have become breaking points for me. I realise that this may seem petty. 1 & 2 are relatively easy to fix, but why?
  So despite that I worked U.Mate 20.04 with pleasure, I won't work on 22.04 LTS anymore. My daily driver will become Ubuntu, for low-end machines I'll use Xubuntu.
  I hope that distro-makers realise that there are more and more people that just want to use the distribution they offer, nothing more. Changes/flaws like these could put people off, chase them away towards another distro, or make them return to Windows/Mac where they came from.

• Does anyone know if many of these graphical bugs have been fixed for this LTS? I'm an average/slightly above average computer user and troubleshooting these bugs takes me soooooo long that it usually drives another nail in the coffin for my enthusiasm to use Linux. I don't have the skill to become a master troubleshooter. I can sometimes figure out how to fix these but it takes a lot of out of me and I'll usually revert back to Windows or Mac for my main work while I recover for months from the pain of the Linux error I fixed. I'd like to get Ubuntu Mate 22.04 on a new budget PC I built, but I'm super nervous about these bugs. I kind of equate my computing work with how I like to drive-I don't want a car I need to work on, I just want a Honda that runs well and runs well for hundreds of thousands of miles. Are we there with Ubuntu Mate 22.04, is it a Honda or is it a Volvo? Any insight appreciated.

• I use this specifically because it runs great on a 1024×768 CRT monitor. Regular Ubuntu is less than ideal. I wouldn't on a newer screen. But it's not for nobody.

• Great presentation. Thank you for the time and effort you took to make this video and share it with us. Greetings from Croatia.

• Wonder if the monitor/display was more to do with Marco (Metacity fork). Might not have issues if using Compton etc. Mate are going to have to make some decisions to support Wayland eventually (Metacity was deprecated recently in Mint for Mutter for that reason).

• I have Mate in one of my older laptops ( Dell e1505 ) and it works fine, it started out with the 16.04 LTS and I've just did the os upgrade through the years without reinstalling. It's just a nice distro that keeps working for me so I keep it and keep it updated. My main distro is MX Linux for the last 5 years or so. Good review, thank you.

• Thanks for the information in this video Jay. Have you noticed that some of these issues were resolved in 22.10?

• I love Mate BUT the screen scaling ruined my experience.. i struggle alot to make it 120% or 150% and with some tweak the screen and fonts look odd.

• Oh, the joy of being unable to deliver singletons under Linux, when even Windows 3.1 learned that trick…
  Try to open the network setting several times, it's going to be fun..🤣

• ubuntu mate is great but i agree its bugy. i have problems with the brisk menu and panels crashing.

• i use ubuntu mate on my alienware laptop which i bought about 2 years ago, it runs very well for me. of course it is a little quirky but worth putting up with. after all, its not like i have to pay a fortune to use it. now that nvidia has open sourced their drivers, those display issues might change. for everyone else not using nvidia graphics, it will work well with linux friendly hardware

• it lacks activities overview, accessability options like mouse cursor resizing, large text, window animation is not impressive, for some reason the installation seems to create a mirror image of the whole drive which ends up taking up double space. I notied this when checking the mate system monitor. Looked further into it by opening storage space analyzer and find that its something names like a firefox cache which does not make any sense. Bright slider is hidden under power which means more clicks to that. One other big thing is it looks like it does not support gnome extensionsfor further customization. Software botique lacks many software and inbuilt screen capture does not have option to crop. So fari noticed these things, but i guess ill live with that. it does look nice and runs chrome and most of the time im in chrome so.

• I tried Ubuntu mate but ill be damned if i could not find the desktop sharing settings ANYWHERE to allow remote desktop connections. I eventually had to install the gnome desktop so that the option could be found and it still crashed with a "oops..something went wrong!" Error when remote-ing into it.

• i use mate on mint21 with no display prblems, its no need for ubuntu mate better linuxmint with mate and the mintinstall software center is much better with hundreds off apps also old apps that i use since zeven os5 based on ubuntu 12.04

• … Mate 22.04 Look is very ugly, icons ???Not to mention the missing Advanced Mate Menu … I have always used Ubuntu Mate … I use Mint Mate …

• I just upgraded to 22.04, and really disliked gnome 42. I remembered mate, and that's far better for me.

  I love all the little panel applets! There were many useful ones. It's so easy to configure, I showed family how to configure to the heart's pleasure. The interface is so familiar, it's a dream.

  There are bugs, but gnome 42 for me was death by a thousand cuts. The upgrade left me unable to get the panel to be configurable.

  The upgrade also caused me ssh issues, which were solved by creating new credentials.

  I decided that when the LTS runs out, I'm thinking about hopping to manjaro. Which I put on a virtual machine, and love!

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