Welcome Linux MINT
I’ve been a long-time user of Ubuntu for my desktops, laptops and netbook, but those days are over. I got fed up with the Unity interface and the kludge of packing GNOME on top of it to make that work semi-properly. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 6.04 (11.10 is the latest) and that’s quite a few years.
Now, I’m a dedicated Linux MINT fan after only two days of using it. It took me only a few hours to backup $HOME, install MINT, restore $HOME and configure/polish/tweak things to where I wanted them. That’s not too bad.
I’ve only done this on my work laptop thus far, but I plan on dropping MINT on my desktop (probably over the weekend) and once I’m done with that, I’ll go with MINT on my netbook as well.
My server (the one hosting this site) will remain Ubuntu server because I don’t have to put up with any GUI garbage on servers. 
