{"id":1442,"date":"2016-02-01T20:33:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2016-02-01T20:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T01:33:37","slug":"ubuntu-mate-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/distros\/ubuntu-mate-rocks","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Mate ROCKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted anything here. But I wanted to take a moment and talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntu-mate.org\/wily\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu Mate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since Kubuntu 14.04 came out (and I did use 13.04 &#038; 13.10) I used it on my Dell Inspiron 15z laptop.  The only issue of installation was the usual pain points of Dual-booting with UEFI and Safe mode.  Things that can typically be fixed easily using the Ubuntu Boot Repair CD.<\/p>\n<p>However, over time I did notice recently that the machine under Kubuntu just didn&#8217;t feel as responsive as it once was.  KDE is a full desktop experience and a good one.  I don&#8217;t blame KDE for being KDE, but I think it was a good time to consider alternatives ahead of the upcoming 16.04 release.<\/p>\n<p>Still a fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jupiterbroadcasting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jupiter Broadcast<\/a> shows (such as Linux Unplugged and the Linux Action Show), there were numerous mentions of Ubuntu Mate.  It got my attention.<\/p>\n<p>I installed it, had the same UEFI nonsense and fixed it.<br \/>\nIt is a great distro. I recommend the current 15.10 release to anyone who wants a full GTK desktop but one that runs faster than KDE.  <\/p>\n<p>I mean, it &#8220;isn&#8217;t KDE&#8221; but that&#8217;s beside the point.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy with its performance and visuals.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve posted anything here. But I wanted to take a moment and talk about Ubuntu Mate. Since Kubuntu 14.04 came out (and I did use 13.04 &#038; 13.10) I used it on my Dell Inspiron 15z laptop. The only issue of installation was the usual pain points of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,23],"tags":[82,68,81,62],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distros","category-install-linux","category-use-linux","tag-gtk","tag-kubuntu","tag-mate","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nylinuxhelp.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}