My freshly installed ubuntu mate desktop!

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JoelWCrump@reddit

Nice. You turned Apple Silicon into a Linux-on-ARM device. That's an improvement!

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Samiassa@reddit

Never used desktop Ubuntu but Ubuntu server is awesome I fucking love it. Hope you have a good time with this distro!

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Global-Eye-7326@reddit

My first several years of Linux were on desktop Ubuntu. It's overall "great", but I've moved onto other distros. For me, it's gotta be either Debian, Fedora or Arch.

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My first several years of Linux were on Slackware. Then one year on Red Hat. Then 14 years on Debian. And now 11 years on Ubuntu. I want LTS, so Fedora and Arch are out. Ubuntu is the "distro of least hassles combined with full freedom of choice" for me.

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Samiassa@reddit

I would honestly agree Ubuntu gets a lot of shit for being a “beginners” distro but you can customize and rice so much with it once yo switch out the de. It’s really a good balance of customization and just working imo

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DoubleOwl7777@reddit

yeah, same for me with kubuntu. i prefer kde

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mrtruthiness@reddit

My favorite DE has been Unity. I prefer KDE to GNOME, but generally just use the default. I hate nautilus (the GNOME file manager) and usually use/install Dolphin (although I guess I prefer gvfs to the KIO for some not-frequently-used virtual FS activities ...).

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Junaid_dev_Tech@reddit

Yep If Ubuntu released the "CLI-ONLY" Edition, then It will be nice and gives "I am using Arch Linux-Like, I am pro" feel.

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Samiassa@reddit

I mean Ubuntu server is basically Ubuntu cli if you go the headless route like I did. It’s also more lightweight than normal Ubuntu, you could totally slap a de ontop and call it a day. My only issue is it’s use of snaps

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gtensor@reddit (OP)

already am!

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Narrow_Day_7705@reddit

Did you install it bate metal mate?

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gtensor@reddit (OP)

What do you mean by bare metal?

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phoenixero@reddit

I used to use mate before I bought a new monitor, needed fractional scaling and moved to something else, is it available now so I can move back?

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NeverEnPassant@reddit

I used mate for a LONG time. Every couple years I would try everything else and decide it was terrible, especially Gnome. I just got a 4k monitor and I needed fractional scaling as well. Mate does not support that. I went through this process again and I found that KDE plasma is really nice. I was able to configure it to behave pretty much excatly like mate. The only thing I miss is the system monitor applets on my task bar. I think I would stick with it even if I didnt need fractional scaling.

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gtensor@reddit (OP)

No

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phoenixero@reddit

Thanks

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landsoflore2@reddit

Cheers m8, welcome to the club 🐧

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gtensor@reddit (OP)

could have said MATE instead of m8 :(

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