Don't like Gnome 3.0 or Unity? Linux Mint 12 offers Gnome 2 like option.
The latest version of Mint channels Gnome 2.0 goodness via two different approaches: Firstly, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions add Gnome 2.0 features to the Gnome 3.0 shell. Secondly, Mint now ships with Mate, a maintenance fork of Gnome 2.0 that can co-exist with a Gnome 3.0 installation.
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Also new cinnamon desktop...
I got all that news from sjvn weeks ago. Man, people sure hate Gnome3.
Well, they at least want all the stripped-out functionality back, which is why Mint came up with the "extensions" for 3 to be more like 2.
Yeah, this isn't terribly new info, but a lot of people still don't know about it. And I love it that Greg Laden promotes at least some alternative OSes/distros, because, um, variety is the spice of living things.
I was really planning on upgrading from Mint 9, but my backup hard drive died and I just don't want to lose 128 gig of data.
I take it your $home is not on a separate partition?
No. Is it too late to do that without losing all my data? When I installed Mint initially I only created one partition.
I can be done but it is one of those things you do after you've backed everything up. You should probably get an external hard drive and put your data on that. You should have that anyway.
I thought that I had that covered, but when I tested the drive before upgrade the drive said "SSCCFRRRTTTCHHH" over and over and none of the data could be transferred.
I didn't proceed with the upgrade.
Those using Mint 12 owe it to themselves to check out Cinnamon, Mint's latest desktop. Best user experience I've had with Linux.