I gave cinnamon with ubuntu 12.04 a try but I didn't like it either so I went back to 10.04. I'm surprised at how fast 10.04 boots. I remember when they were building it they were trying to get a 20 second boot time and I'm not sure but if it doesn't boot in 20 seconds its not much longer than that.
I'm hoping that the powers to be will pull their collective heads out of their behinds concerning Unity sometime in the near future.
My neighbor has mint with Cinnamon and he loves it but for some reason it doesn't seem to work as fluid with Ubuntu as it does with mint. If Mint would get rid of that gawd awful green theme for the icons and such I'd switch to mint and be happy with it but I can't warm up to the green they use. Green is my favorite color but not the green they use.
I'm mighty picky for someone who is using a freebie, eh 
Between you and I I think I can live without the security updates for a while when 10.04 is no longer supported. At least long enough to hope that they give us an option between unity and gnome3. Mate shows some real promise but its not quite ready for the big time yet, still work to be done on it. 
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