Me, casually running Mate and enjoying on stable and customizable it is. I'll let you guys fight while I enjoy my polished experience!

I would love Wayland support tho...

To add more info then the other comments, this error message seems to indicate that the name of the file is too long or contains invalid characters. In your case, that might be the ".pages.pdf" (the double dots) I would personally try to write only ".pdf".

After a bit of googling, it seems that another reason might be that Apple be Apple. In other words, there seems to be a long, unresolved bug with the smb client in the native apps that bugs out when the smb server is on Linux (and sometimes even if it's on Windows...). One of the solutions mentioned was to use another file manager app.

Now, I do get that, sometimes, error messages are very useless (looking at you "An error occurred"...), but this one is actually pretty self explanatory... A bit of googling before just posting about your problem. And another thing that's generally appreciated is to write what you tried to do to solve the problem. And btw, this doesn't seem to be a Linux problem, more of an Apple one, so you should post it on that Community instead of c/Linux.

I'm not an American and English isn't my first language, so the US way to write dates always confused me. Now, I finally understand it! Many thanks, this is legitimately sooooo useful!

Future teacher here, my salary starts at 52$ CAD/hour, which is great! But I'm only paid for the time I'm in class, which is roughly 3h45 per day...

This pay doesn't include the time to prepare the class, the time to correct, the time to attend mandatory meetings on the lunch break. Finally, we don't have our vacation payed, so they split our pay to give us a salary during the summer (okay this last point is fair, but it illustrates that hourly salary in education is not representative).

Wait till you hear about Quarks. True minimalist knows!

I use Mate everyday, it's my DE (Desktop Environment) of choice. I've used it through Ubuntu Mate and Opensuse. There's a huge difference between the two. The difference is, since the main developer of the Mate DE is the main developer of Ubuntu Mate, the experience is noticeably better there. Ubuntu has its flaws, but it's a fairly good all rounder.

Just on a side note, Mate is one of the most "Linux looking" DE. Which is cool since it's different and shows you a different (and in my opinion, more efficient) way to work! But if you want something Windows looking, well it's quite different. If you need light weight and windows looking, look for Lubuntu (or any distro with the LXQT DE)!

I'm boring Af, I use Ubuntu with Mate DE.

I would love to switch to Opensuse Tumbleweed, but I need Ubuntu because of some interactive board drivers that are only available for ubuntu... 😭