I held back upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04 for a while because I didn't like where Unity and Gnome were heading but the lack of support for my aging distr

I held back upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04 for a while because I didn't like where Unity and Gnome were heading but the lack of support for my aging distrib finally "forced" me to upgrade. It was an absolute disaster on the performance, stability and usability fronts so I installed Cinnamon which is delightful on this old PC.