I had MATE running on both GuixSD and NixOS in 2019. For some reason, it wouldn't detect the F1 through F12 keys my QMK-based keyboard was sending. That's as fa

I had MATE running on both GuixSD and NixOS in 2019. For some reason, it wouldn't detect the F1 through F12 keys my QMK-based keyboard was sending. That's as far as I got before giving up, but it did look promising. As other commenters said, Ubuntu Mate looks like Ubuntu 8.04, of which I too had my first year-long experience using Linux as a daily driver.