The trip to get Linux to work on my laptop was long and a little bit painful I must confess but so worth it.
Mate just looks awesome, except that some programs react stupid to my touchpad I find it now that I am used to it better then on windows, as when I wanted to drag on windows I had to use 2 fingers while now I can just use one for example.
And the skype thing is just microsoft not giving a crap about Linux for example a post about the picture sharing thing said that they wanted to bring it to all their platforms and then a lists of OSes and stuff, Linux was not included.......
and before someone says that Linux is obviously not supported anymore: then why if I go to the download site I immediately get the Linux download.