There is a better start menu if you use MATE Desktop called Advanced Menu that enables you windows key and search bar. To many users, it would be more efficient compared to the default list-style menu that lacks both. This tutorial will show you how to do it and it is applicable to Trisquel and any other GNU/Linux with MATE Desktop. Let's try it out!

 

Because Ubuntu and all Official Flavors officially stopped providing 32-bit ISO Images in 2019, I write this compilation. I believe even in 2019 many of us still have old, 32-bit computers or laptops, so it's good to find GNU/Linux distros that support 32-bit. Here you will find at least thirteen GNU/Linux distros with MATE Desktop still supporting 32-bit in 2019, namely, Trisquel 8.0, Uruk 2.0, Fedora 29, Mint 18 and 19, Debian Live 9, Devuan 2.0, Sparky 5.3, Mageia 6, Porteus 4.0, Robo 8.11, Ubuntu MATE 18.04, Void (rolling), and IGOS 12. You can download them and install and have updates in a certain period of time. All of them are LiveCD Installers except Devuan and Mageia. I wish this compilation helps you to find latest distro and prolong support lifetime for your old computers. Finally, happy downloading!

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Following the first and the second tutorials, it's MATE Desktop's turn now getting customized with Yosemite Theme Pack. We will use OS-X-Yosemite as both interior (GTK3) and exterior (Metacity) themes, McHigh Sierra as icon theme, Madmac as Plank theme, plus some more tweaks done via MATE Tweak Tool. You don't need to install any additional software package. This customization has been tested and worked on Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS. It's really fun and everybody new to customization can benefit from the basics practiced here. Enjoy it, and share with your friends!

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This quick guide explains the steps to change desktop language for both Ubuntu 18.04 and Trisquel 8.0 to German, Russian, Spanish, Indonesian, and revert back to English. Here I also give an example (Indonesian) in installing manually a Language Pack which by default is not installed so you will understand how to do the same for another languages (Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, etc.). Enjoy Ubuntu and Trisquel in your own language!

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This is the first part of an easy user manual series of Trisquel GNU/Linux operating system version 8.0 "Flidas". This manual is intended for you beginners and first-timers to operate Trisquel easily everyday. This whole series is practice oriented, with less theories and terms, more practical for daily use. This first part is basic orientation of Trisquel, you will learn the icons and places on Trisquel operating system. You will learn what applications already installed and their purposes, and important places you need everyday (i.e. where your Home folder is, where your partitions are, where your Control Panel is). Enjoy!

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The Heads-Up Display (or, HUD) is now a star feature on Ubuntu MATE 17.10 Beta. It got improved a lot on Beta and it's amusing! On Alpha version, the HUD appears after some taps on Super+Alt buttons, and this would be difficult for many Unity users. But now on Beta version, the HUD appears by single tap on Alt button, making it easier for us and closer to Unity's HUD. The big change is the HUD is now placed locally on every window! See the GIF animation and pictures below.

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MATE 1.18 has been released at 13 March 2017. The source code are available on their public file server and the runnable version has been available on Ubuntu MATE 17.04 "Zesty Zapus". This short review covers some new things for end-users: better playback notifications, "safely remove disk" notification, touchpad/mouse control improvements (libinput), MATE Calc returns, and some more. It's RAM usage on Zesty at idle is ~700MB. This is a continuation from our previous MATE 1.17 review. I hope this review will be helpful for you all. Enjoy!

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MATE 1.17 is a testing release, it has no official announcement like 1.16 stable release (odd = unstable, even = stable). But what made me interested is because Ubuntu MATE 17.04 includes it by default so I write this short review. The most fundamental news is about MATE Desktop is now completely ported to GTK+3 leaving behind GTK+2. You may be interested seeing few changes and I have tried Ubuntu MATE 17.04 Alpha 2 to review MATE 1.17 below. Enjoy MATE 1.17!

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