Ubuntu 12.04 & Cinnamon

[vasa1]

I wondered about Mint. What is the difference between Mate and Cinnamon?

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/06/02/mate-vs-cinnamon/

[GeForce 9500GT]

I wondered about Mint. What is the difference between Mate and Cinnamon?

You can read everything here and here.

[Buntu Bunny]

Vasa1 and GeForce 9500GT, thanks!

[RikoW]

Coming back to the original question, I suppose you could just add the Mint repos and install Cinnamon into your Ubuntu installation:

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import

sudo apt-get install cinnamon

should do the trick. The base system of Mint 13 is Ubuntu 12.04 anyway. You will then be able to select Cinnamon from the session section windows on the login screen.

The above would install Cinnamon 1.4 while 1.6 was recently released. That may fix some of the problem/bugs/instabilities people see or feel

V1.6 of cinnamon can be installed via this repos:

 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable

Of course, you can go the other way to (in fact, that's what I did):

1) install Mint 13
2a) install unity
2b) install gnome-shell

Work with all of them until you know which one you like best

Cheers,
Riko

[SuperFreak]

I have been using Cinnamon 1.6 on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine for about a week. I have had no instability problems (which I had with 1.4). I really like the interface which is much more crisp and professional compared to xfce (which is my previous DE)

[wheeze]

The above would install Cinnamon 1.4 while 1.6 was recently released. That may fix some of the problem/bugs/instabilities people see or feel

V1.6 of cinnamon can be installed via this repos:

Actually you can install Cinnamon 1.6 using Mint's repos by adding the romeo branch to their source list.

deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ maya main upstream import romeo

Update apt and you'll have inn 1.6 available. Obviously, this works for Mint 13 as well

PS - Don't forget to install Mint's keyring, too, for error-free updates.

sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring

[hwyckoff]

I installed Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04 and like the result. I was able to install it in a matter of minutes. So should you [be able to install it quickly], assuming you have a decent Internet speed.

Here's the method I followed: go into Terminal and enter these commands.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

It's that easy. When you're done with the code, log out. When you log back in, change the default desktop from whatever you have to Cinnamon.