Install the latest and greatest Cinnamon desktop on Ubuntu 12.04

If you are not going to use Unity, why use Ubuntu?

Because it has a large team of very good developers on the Canonical payroll. Such folks fix up a lot of problems.

Quoting:If you are not going to use Unity, why use Ubuntu?

Perhaps the same question could also be asked in a reverse fashion regarding non-Unity DE's.

For example,

Quoting:If you are going to use KDE/XFCE/LXDE, why use the non-Canonical 'buntu variants Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Lubuntu ?

@montezuma: It is well documented that, other than LTS releases, Canonical devs do NOT fix bugs during a release cycle. That's Canonical policy. Fixes go into the next version. It's one of the main reasons I consider Ubuntu a poor choice for me.

There is nothing wrong with using Xubuntu, but taking Xubuntu and installing KDE on top of it? And that it the day after the release, not after using it for months.

Caitlyn,

But they do fix things eventually and I upgrade every 6 months. Works for me however YMMV I find usually after an upgrade that there are a number of annoyances that I sort out after a week or so and then things are pretty stable for the next 5 or so months.

Does Ubuntu really fix things during an LTS release. Really?

Quoting:Does Ubuntu really fix things during an LTS release. Really?

Another factor to consider is which particular Ubuntu-based distro, e.g., Linux Mint, becomes the first to successfully fix major "things"/"annoyances"; this distro compared to Ubuntu's upcoming fixes for one of its own LTS's.

Ubuntu does fix LTS releases, but not the six month releases in between. Montezuma: I can't live six months with broken crap and jury rigged work-arounds.

Caitlyn

Fair enough, Doesn't bother me much. I just tinker a bit. I guess if you want a higher degree of stability then you stick to LTS or Debian

...or Red Hat and it's clones or openSUSE or...

Well for me I prefer not to jump around that much. I am happy with apt-get etc

I personally think distro hopping is overrated. The differences between different distros are not huge and it is better to stick with what you are familiar. That way you tend to be more technically competent.

Quoting:Well for me I prefer not to jump around that much. I am happy with apt-get etc

I have the same opinion as @montezuma, but I keep my options open by periodically testing other Distros. in case a different one makes a big jump ahead all others.

Or in case my preferred distro suffers a catastrophic loss of developers, or mass insanity, or . . .

Given that there is no hope of MS ever compensating me for my lost time, files, or free tech support to Windows sheeple, I will not make the same mistake again.

This repo installs the (daily) developmental version of cinnamon which can be unstable. Case in point on my 64bit precise system it segfaults for the last two days (worked fine before that). YMMV.

If you want Cinnamon, why not just run Linux Mint?

Quoting:If you want Cinnamon, why not just run Linux Mint?

How about also waiting for the next Ubuntu 12.04 fix, as mentioned by the same commentator quoted here in the related LXer thread Why? ??

Caitlyn

The issue is using a developmental version of a distro. This makes things unstable in general. Mint has not released the corresponding version so that is moot. If you run 11.10 or the last Mint no problems occur even with the latest Cinnamon.