Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
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Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
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Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
Here is my detailed analysis of the several bugs I encountered installing Mint MATE on bare metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6rofiwYvs
Great potential, but this beta definitely needs lots of work.
Thanks again mint team. Please don't be too upset about my constructive criticism. I'm trying to help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6rofiwYvs
Great potential, but this beta definitely needs lots of work.
Thanks again mint team. Please don't be too upset about my constructive criticism. I'm trying to help.
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Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
See the "Bug Reports" section in the blog post.rhY wrote: Here is my detailed analysis of the several bugs I encountered installing Mint MATE on bare metal:
Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
Are you suggesting I type out all the bugs I find in the video?
I will, just curious as to what you're saying.
I will, just curious as to what you're saying.
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Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
I doubt anyone is going to want to sit through nearly an hour and a half but kudos for coming up with enough content to fill a recording that long.
Thankfully YouTube has your back, so you don't need to type everything out. There's a transcript feature that automatically generates a text based version of what is said. Click on the video menu and open the transcript, copy and paste the relevant stuff into any bug reports. As you speak American English the accuracy of the transcript should be quite high.
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Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
I'm suggesting that you submit bugs as directed. Posting a video here doesn't do much, unless I'm misunderstanding what you intended.rhY wrote: Are you suggesting I type out all the bugs I find in the video?
Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of "bug" but I don't think personal opinions of what should be or shouldn't be Mint is a bug.
Admittedly I did not watch the entire hour and a half video and skipped around for about 5 minutes but I didn't see any mention of a bug.
... Maybe nothing about Mint bugs me. Dunno. I too would like to see Gimp included but it's just a couple of clicks away to install.
It's easy enough to make Mint like you want it. I'm past that learning curve. One size does not fit all.
Admittedly I did not watch the entire hour and a half video and skipped around for about 5 minutes but I didn't see any mention of a bug.
... Maybe nothing about Mint bugs me. Dunno. I too would like to see Gimp included but it's just a couple of clicks away to install.
It's easy enough to make Mint like you want it. I'm past that learning curve. One size does not fit all.
Re: Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa” MATE – BETA Release
This. There are very few bugs shown in that video. It's mostly complaints about the defaults not meeting someones own personal preferences. There is a lot of feedback from a lot of users that goes into the decisions made for the defaults. And some choices are made because things don't work properly, what we want to take responsibility for maintaining, etc.JoeBingo wrote: ⤴Mon Dec 28, 2020 12:45 am Maybe I misunderstand the meaning of "bug" but I don't think personal opinions of what should be or shouldn't be Mint is a bug.
Admittedly I did not watch the entire hour and a half video and skipped around for about 5 minutes but I didn't see any mention of a bug.
... Maybe nothing about Mint bugs me. Dunno. I too would like to see Gimp included but it's just a couple of clicks away to install.
It's easy enough to make Mint like you want it. I'm past that learning curve. One size does not fit all.
A good example is using the dark theme by default. For one, not everyone wants that. I don't believe even a majority do. On top of that, while the person making the video may not have run into it in his own personal use, dark themes have well known and unfixable issues. They don't always display properly in gtk2 apps or others that rely on gtk2 theming, like Qt. They also break things in browsers which everyone does use. So one person may prefer them, they simply aren't a choice as the default.
That is just one example of why a certain default is chosen. We try to make choices that we can make work properly and will work for the majority of users.
When I give opinions, they are my own. Not necessarily those of any other Linux Mint developer or the Linux Mint project as a whole.
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Some issues mentioned are caused by upstream changes to MATE itself rather than at distribution level as well. For example, the desktop background images taking a long time to load the first time you open the dialog. All distributions I have tried since MATE became GTK3 have suffered to an extent with that. Linux Mint do not solely develop MATE, only one or two Mint Developers are listed as part of the MATE team and I'm not sure how active Clem really is in that regard which is why I said one or two. The MATE project lead is actually Martin Wimpress at present who is behind UbuntuMATE.
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