Comment by moo

I've stopped letting these people lead me by the nose. For the community support and staying compatible I'm currently sticking with an Ubuntu upgrade path, but I've long left the default user interfaces behind. For a window manager I use openbox with tint2. I don't find much utility in the Debian/Ubuntu derived distros like Linux Mint, jumping from being based on Ubuntu,to Debian, then back to Ubuntu and breaking compatibility along the way.