+1 to Cinnamon being great.<p>I&#x27;ve found Ubuntu&#x27;s Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I&#x27;ve never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use.  Cinnamon is an absolute joy to use in comparison - just does its job and gets out of the way.<p>Sounds like Mint is a sort of &quot;unbuntu-without-unity&quot; which is worth its weight in gold in my opinion.  Wish I could change my work&#x27;s distro to use it!