coming back to a linux laptop i haven't used in a year or so. i look up at the indicator applet tray in my MATE desktop. there is a prohibited symbol. i click on it. an empty box appears. i right click on it. i get the helpful about box that this is an indicator applet panel. i do not know what the prohibited sign means. i cannot get rid of it without getting rid of all the other applets. this is the reality of using a linux desktop
using linux always makes me miss windows, every single time.
linux is a very good operating system for a headless server that turns into a very bad operating system once you plug a monitor into it and install a desktop environment
i press prtsc. flameshot comes up and lets me crop the area i want to screen shot. this is a good thing. there is now a flameshot indicator applet where there wasn't before. this is ok. the muted volume indicator applet has changed from gray to red and become off-center. this is perplexing
i search for a way to list all programs that currently have indicator applets registered. i get no relevant results. i conclude there is not one person in the world who knows exactly how desktop linux fully works
the only reason this laptop runs linux is that it's a centrino duo from 2008. linux is lightweight, but that's at the expense of not really being very good