Re: [Trisquel-users] Is anyone else getting a CPU spikes when you edit anything in Gedit?

[onpon4]

It doesn't have to; that's why Ubuntu and Debian don't pull new versions into  
their releases, the potential compatibility breakage is less important than  
the potential bugfixes. But if it's unmaintained for a really long time,  
you'll get some application breakage, and in the more short-term, you won't  
get any improvements, new features, etc.

There's a reason Mint didn't just keep using GNOME 2 forever; it did so for a  
while, but at some point, you have to use something current. In any case, why  
would you even suggest using GNOME 2? It's been superseded just fine by MATE.