I remember installing it when it was relatively new and people were gushing over it.  A few weeks later a new version came out.  I tried upgrading when I found there was no upgrade path.  Upgrading Mint means reinstalling Mint.<p>I remember the days before apt-get when there was only dpkg.  Before Debian I used Slackware so I&#x27;m all too familiar with package management (or lack of).<p>The idea that someone would release a new distribution, based on Debian of all things, and it <i>not</i> be able to upgrade was repelling to my mind.  Re-install Mint to upgrade?  No thanks I&#x27;ll install Ubuntu over it.<p>Cinnamon is nice but I never understood why it needs its own distribution.  I should be able to apt-get install cinammon-desktop or whatever and it work like any other package.