{"id":34179,"date":"2024-06-30T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T01:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34179"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T22:44:41","slug":"trapped-in-a-past-we-never-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34179","title":{"rendered":"Trapped in a Past We Never Made"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago the beta for Linux Mint<\/a> 22 was approved for release, and while it hasn’t been officially announced yet I downloaded it off one of the mirrors to take a look at over the weekend. But not the usual Cinnamon edition, or the XFCE edition (which I use on my Chromebook). I wanted to look at the MATE edition, which I’ve never given any love to at all. And, since I had a spare SSD in a drawer, I threw it into a machine and installed it Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

(It was a mentally exhausting week at work. I needed to exercise different mental muscles.)<\/p>\n

MATE is based on GNOME 2, and while out of the box the Mint team styles it to look a lot like Windows, I decided I’d style Mint 22 MATE to look like GNOME 2.<\/p>\n

It took about forty minutes, and I had myself a GNOME 2-ish Linux Mint 22, as you can see above. A menu and notification bar at the top of the screen, an open window bar with workspace switcher at the bottom. And when I overlay my Mint 22 with a VM of Ubuntu 8.04 on GNOME 2<\/a>…<\/p>\n

\"An<\/p>\n

…they’re essentially the same user experience. Colors are different, icons are different, but functionality? The same. Sixteen years difference, yet not different.<\/p>\n

I set up Mint 22 with the SSTP and remote desktop software I need for work and got those configured. Then I experimented with Compiz effects, which was not something I’d ever explored before.<\/p>\n

\"Compiz<\/p>\n

On the oblique side, that’s the remote desktop opened to work. That’s a really cool effect. Useful? Maybe not. Fun to look at? Hell yeah.<\/p>\n

I think I’ll keep this around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago the beta for Linux Mint 22 was approved for release, and while it hasn’t been officially announced yet I downloaded it off one of the mirrors to take a look at over the weekend. But not the usual Cinnamon edition, or the XFCE edition (which I use on my Chromebook). IContinue reading “Trapped in a Past We Never Made”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[763],"tags":[5140,4860,5090],"class_list":["post-34179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint","tag-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}