This morning I installed Mint 14. Early days, but it comes with Oracle's JRE 1.7 which is the only JRE that seems to work with the Juniper firewall the university uses. SO that saved quite a bit of messing around. MATE is clean and so much better than Unity. Pretty much everything up and running including updates, the LVM disks and fstab mounts, my VMs and Open Office and some menu customization in under two hours.
Postscript: However, there are some significant irritants. First, the text editor, gedit, is simply renamed pluma; it doesn't look or do anything different: Why? Alacarte, the menu editor that worked reasonably well in Ubuntu, seems to be broken. Getting my menus looking like they were in Ubuntu took twice as long as installing the system. The shine has worn off in less than a day.
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