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when I start my laptop with Ubuntu Mate 16.04, and after I login.. GNOME always freezes or becomes unresponsive.

To fix this, I can restart GNOME with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then back to my screen with Ctrl+Alt+F7.

But that is not the solution I want. I just want to fix this unresponsiveness. The first step would be to debug this, but I dont know where to start. Does gnome report any log files on this kind of behaviour?

EDIT: based on the comments, I ran ubuntu-support-status and found that most of my packages (75%) are still supported.

Thanks. I did not know this, it might be wise indeed to switch to a different version that ís supported.

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  • FYI: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS being a flavor of Ubuntu had only 3 years of supported life (fridge.ubuntu.com/2019/03/01/ubuntu-16-04-6-lts-released) which ended 2019-April. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server (no desktop) or Desktop (Unity 7) have 5 years of supported life and are still supported. Refer release notes, or use ubuntu-support-status or your own system to confirm this is the case. I suggest you move to a supported release of Ubuntu-MATE for security reasons, unless you're off-line or are aware of risks. ubuntu-mate.community/t/…
    – guiverc
    Apr 2, 2020 at 7:24
  • (also GNOME in 16.04 was only a flavor, thus is EOL as well. GNOME on 18.04 is the default desktop so it'll get 5 years of supported life when you release-upgrade to 18.04; Unity on 18.04 only has 3 years of supported life)
    – guiverc
    Apr 2, 2020 at 7:25
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    FYI: Yes your base packages are still supported; GNOME shares loads of packages with Unity 7 (supported still on 16.04) so those receive updates, let alone your 16.04 base is still supported. The other negative for getting help is many Ubuntu people may not answer; whilst it's our own choice, we are encouraged to not support EOL software/users as that support only encourages using the un-patched potentially insecure packages; anyone who has skill to backport the fixes themselves won't be seeking support anyway. I didn't close vote, but I ignored your question, others may do the same.
    – guiverc
    Apr 2, 2020 at 7:39
  • @guiverc thanks for the response! That makes a lot of sense :)
    – zwep
    Apr 2, 2020 at 8:27
  • @guiverc The support status is not a problem here, I think. I run MATE 16.04 LTS on 150 machines, and do not really care about EOL as the core components still get security updates. It just works and works great.
    – N0rbert
    Apr 2, 2020 at 8:54

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