what about your customers?

it still works, maybe you guys need to call the Geek Squad

so cool, saves those valuable resources! I just knew Gnome3 was good for something...

Good move. My wife had similar complaints. I went one step better and also installed LMDE on her laptop. after configuring it to look identical to her Mint I set it as her default boot OS. >>> she did not notice the change at all. after a couple weeks I asked how she liked. she thought a bit and replied "I did notice that there were no updates needed, but I thought maybe you were doing that for me." LMDE = Stable. next spring LMDE2 will be even more stable.

99% of the real people only use 6 or 8 applications... or even less. if shortcuts to those apps are in the toolbar, there is no need to drill down and find things.

whiners: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lin...

Mate would have been a better choice, with the desktop clean of icons, and the shortcuts she needs in the toolbar. Who needs menus?

OK, seriously... Didn't they just fade into the sunset? I know there is a Gnome3 desktop, but isn't it just time for it to disappear? Nope, I firmly hate Groupon, but not thinking campaign this is worth my effort or $$$

they are just a bit lonely...

I don't hire folks that hop around. It is just not worth my effort. If I want temporary help I use one of those "warm body" agencies

"Should disabled users stick with outdated, vulnerable, and unsupported Linux distros or ..." Older versions may be unsupported, but thry still work. Vulnerable to what? Are you a bank? Give it somr time, patches happen.

the Mint version of Mate has the missing polish.

the Mint version of Mate has the missing polish

Mate

âoeGNOME is the desktop environment of choice for many Yahoo developers..." so That is the reason Yahoo went to hell! When Gnome2 was abandoned the "team" showed its true colors, a big Fail