Kubuntu 16.04 32 Bits
Berry Spitsberg
I have been using Kubuntu 18.04 LTS for 4 months. My experience has mostly been positive except some annoying bugs which are making me consider switching to a different ubuntu distro. I was suggested to give mate a try and I have a few questions about it.
In my limited testing experience, the KDE desktop of Kubuntu is way more buggy and unstable than Mate. Beyond that, the underlying architecture is Ubuntu in both distro flavours and should be the same on both Kubuntu and Ubuntu Mate.
i5 w/ 4GB of RAM is way above minimal specs for Ubuntu MATE.
My recommendation is that you install the Ubuntu MATE components alongside your Kubuntu Desktop to give it a trial run before switching.
Thanks guys . Right now I have installed 18.04.02 alongside kubuntu . I plan to remove kubuntu altogether after I get familiarise with mate.
Btw any suggestions on how to make mate look more modern ? Right now it seems a bit dated to me though it all comes down to personal preference. I don't want to do too much customization just a dark theme and different icon pack. Thank you.
The lead developer and project lead of Ubuntu-Mate likes green.
You can change many aspects of the desktop appearance:
System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance... (I'm using the "traditional desktop").
You can try out combinations until you find something you like.
That said, there are possible ways of changing theme colors being considered, whether it's by using a script to auto-generate the current themes in newer colors, or to alter your current theme's CSS to custom colors. This, however, will take time - it's not trivial, since GTK removed the ability to change theme colors
I have installed arc dark theme with papirus icon set and I'm all set . I'm really happy with mate for now. In kubuntu my desktop used to hang/crash a lot. I'm doing the same tasks on Mate and it has been pretty smooth ride so far.
I have changed my desktop UI to look like pantheon ( I don't remember how I did it , was changing some settings and it happened ) and with the arc theme it looks really great. Thank you everyone for you help. I really appreciate it .
I have been using KDE as my primary Linux desktop for quite a while now. KDE 3.4 days probably.
Like the OP I have ended up looking for something besides Plasma right now. Though, I will say Plasma is fairly well built. Gnome 3 is basically pointless so here I come to try MATE as well.
Having run both Gnome 2 and KDE 3 back over a decade ago I have found the move over to be pretty easy so far. Well after going through the theme configuration and picking out something that look like my main Gnome 2 desktop from 10+ years ago.
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