Well you can use cinnamon too, it is in trhe repos if you use ubuntu above 14.04

Thanks for the help It seemed to have work in a VM

I have been a Slackware guy for over 20 years... but coming from Ubuntu you might feel more at home with Debian. Debian is less hand holding than Ubuntu and is "pure" rather than "Debian based" as noted by a poster above.

EDIT: Sorry... reread your original post and see that you are after an Ubuntu based distro. Please ignore my worthless dribble above that does nothing to address your question.

Your comment is absolutely worthwhile.

Why not try ChaletOS, although it is based on Xubuntu. It is really a great distro, fast and customizable.

I know the name probably puts a lot of people off looking at it closer but that is a shame (I think a name rethink by its founder would be a good idea for the distro to appeal to more people).

I use it as my main daily OS, I try others on my second PC but always keep ChaletOS on my main.

I think I'm going to switch to Linux Mint 18 when it comes out next month Thanks everyone!

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Peach OSI is a very fine distribution. It is a refined Ubuntu remix, it has Xfce, but you can customize it or install other DE's (like in most distros) like Cinnamon, KDE, MATE, etc. I installed the Barebones edition. I like it better than Linux Mint.

Manjaro is another fine distribution, based on Arch. There are plenty of DE's available for Manjaro.
As always, you can try them on a VM to see if they fit you.

Regards.

I think this is a case of incompatible requirements
The desktops like Unity and Gnome are generally aimed at people who want looks and a "phone-style" interface but are happy to take things as they some, while those like Mate and Xfce are designed to people who want to use them rather than look at them.

KDE tries to give you the best of both worlds, but that takes resources. But KDE can be "tamed": according to my records, Salix and SolydX use only about half the resources of Fedora and SUSE — it's all down to customisation.

Hi.

For most of mine a netinst (why get milk, veggies and eggs if you can a farm, ) more often than not I like mixing in the cutting edge stuff too.

Have fun!

NO NEED to wait > > > ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/linuxmint.com/testing/

Maybe Bodhi Linux will be good for you. Very customizable. Works good on old laptops and computers.

Best distro around >>>

http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

I would wait a while though. There have been quite a few bugs reported in the Linux Mint blog comments. KDE Plasma 5 is a large change from KDE 4 and so I reckon it will take a while for the Mint 18 implementation to settle down.