I gave myself a little gift recently and revisited Ubuntu Mate by virtue of a transplanted hard disk.

In my case, Mate was a gift that was giving and giving until it wasn’t.

When the eMachines T6528 went belly up due to leaky logic board capacitors, I parted this tank of a tower out, half-heartedly vowing to get back to this low-footprint Linux distribution as soon as I could.

Fast forward several months and with some precious free time on my hands, I was finally able to make good on the promise.

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Source: COMPUTER WORLD