Swapped this out last month. Wanted to wait until Mate was at least at the .1 change.
The good--
The good--
- Like the different interfaces available through Tweak. I've settled on Contemporary. I've done two installs on friends and family and I think they settled on Mutiny and Cupertino. All this variety, easily switched is a big plus in my mind.
Mint had a bit of trouble connecting through my usb-Wi-Fi. Sometimes had to try to hit a neighbor's wi-fi in order to clean things out. Sometimes had to swap out wi-fi antennas. No such problems with Linux Mate.
Full updates are automatic. I always kept Mint on level 3. Never had any trouble, but was a bit concern about the age of Mint's bones after a couple of years of partial updates. (realize new Mint regresses if you have an update problem, so Mint 19 may be superior for updates).
The bad--- Chrome and Gmail seem to have slowed down, but this might because of ongoing Google bloat. Have switched to Firefox as my primary browser and it seems much faster, especially with tracking protection on. Then again, my computer is getting very old and was bottom of the line to begin with. I'm sure none of the computers I'm supporting would install Win10 at all. They barely functioned with Win7.
Linux Mint comes with much prettier backgrounds-wallpaper. Not much of a problem, because it's certainly easy to load your own.
Anyway, a month in, I'm very happy with Ubuntu Mate. I was already installing it on friends computers and I now prefer it for my own, although absolutely no disrespect to Linux Mint. It's great too.
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