I am all in. Just installed GhostBSD on my daily driver. I come from DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, 98SE, ...Got onto RedHat 5.5, mucked a bit with MacOS. Since 2010, I've been all Linux for regular-use machines. I am a Debian boy. I like LXDE. My last daily driver was ZorinOS. I actually would have installed GhostBSD earlier, but it was not compatible with Ventoy. I kept that NVME drive in case things do not work out. I have had experience with MATE off and on. I like it. It is actually installed on one of my fileservers (Ubuntu MATE). I have run into a few issues:
- When I power-down my system, it restarts. I tried it from the command line as well with the same results.
- Default MATE panel configuration -I would recommend just having one panel on the bottom. Has there been a survey to ask people their preference? Like other MATE setups, I just delete the top panel and add the "task manager"/"window list" to the bottom panel. Just out of curiosity, does anyone have a sense for how many people make use of the multiple "workspaces" function?
- This one I did not expect: My mouse. I don't remember the last time I had a tough time with the "feel" of a mouse. I do not know what is wrong with it. It feels like the sensitivity and the adaptive acceleration are alien. I have tried all of the settings in the Mouse settings to try to help. I just have a regular Logitech MK120 office mouse. Unfortunately, your boy is a sad mouse-jockey. If I can not find a little help here, or get used to the new behaviour, I might have to run away. EDIT: So after mucking about, I found some joy. I am using a Dell AIO that has a shattered display. I can "see" most of the LCD/LVDS screen, it just has cracks and lines. I had the display mirrored with the setting: "Same image in all monitors". This, for whatever reason, is a problem. Turning off the Dell AIO display, and only having the external display helped with the mouse lag/whatever. I feel like this is going to cause a problem as soon as I restart it. Often, the display manager with automatically consider an external monitor to be an "extended" desktop/area. We shall see.
