Thank you for that; its quite interesting. However, what i really
need is to
find out just exactly what I have to do in order to get Cinnamon both
installed
on my computer, but also working.
The Unity interface is so drastically different, and for me, so
utterly non-intuitive
that I can spend literally hours at it and not be able to get anything,
constructive
or otherwise, done.
I am a Secretarial Officer in several branch units of the Odd
Fellow fraternal Order,
and I use my computer for keeping my records. I am spending most of
today copying
all my files from the Documents Folder of my 'old' 11.10 Oneiric
partition to my Linux Mint
partition, which I can use until or when I can get a usable desktop
working on the 12.04
Precise partition --- with only Ubuntu unity 3d or 2d as choices, it is
virtually useless to me.
With the several partitions that I have - all running some Linux
Distro, I likely should have
set up a single /home directory for them all to utilize - but I am not
sure how I'd go about
that, either. So, in that case perhaps I will just to be covered, I will
duplicate the same /home
in each partition.
I sure hope that someone knows the procedure for installing and
setting up Cinnamon on
12.04 and would be willing to share the 'secret'. I would be very glad
to be so enlightened.
As always, thanks for any and all helpful words & suggestions.