Comments on Install MyUnity On Linux Mint 13 (Maya)

Why would you do that?

Why??? The purpose of the current iteration of Mint is to get rid of Unity. It makes no sense.

I agree, why? Mint is a distro based on Ubuntu, if you want Unity, just use Ubuntu. Ubuntu has advantages over Debian, but the main advantage Mint has as far as I can see is Mate. This is like a solution to a problem nobody has...

A couple of side comments regarding building from source:

1. You don't have to be root to build the package i.e. the "make" process.

2. root (sudo) privileges needed only to install additional packages and in the "make install" step.

with Ubuntu, you get a pretty good collection of software, and it tends to stay a bit more up to date than Mint.  With Mint, you get a more fully tested collection of software, often with fixes to Ubuntu issues (not sure if they feed those fixes back to Ubuntu, and then up to Debian or not; hope they do; that's the purpose of the GPL and software sharing).

So in that light, using Mint provides a bit less volatile environment than Ubuntu, so if you like the Ubuntu look and feel but you like an environment with just a bit of lag - for stability reasons, then I could see potentially using MyUnity with Mint.

 Me?  Wouldn't bother.  I care neither for Mint nor for Unity, Mate, Cinnamon or any of that stuff.  Though it's really easy to install and use, I have enough experience to get what I want working just about as fast as having to fool around with either of these distributions to get them to completely behave in the manner that I prefer rather than the manner they were designed for.

 So while I have nothing against either of them, neither are they in the mainline of my interests.  I do test them occasionally, either to help out or to assess them for those who ask about them.  They're both solid systems; it all depends on what you want and prefer to use.

Uversion = "12.04" ’Uversion = Right$(Tmp_split[1], 5)

did not work. So I replaced "´" by "'", which seemed to be the right thing, as no more error was displayed during make.

And why would I want to install the whole thing? Because Maya Cinnamon is installed on my box. Recently when I upgraded from my old CRT to a 2560x1440 display, my onboard graphics had no more enough 3D power. That made me aware, that Cinnamon is lacking a fallback mode, that you could stick with. Ubuntu has.

Next thing is, that I have a Nokia N9, which might require some day a replacement for Meego Harmattan. This might be Ubuntu in some mobile version, with Unity of course.

I come to think that Shuttleworth was right with his design decissions, but ahead of the crowd. I'd like to experience Unity myself now on day by day usage. But I do not want to replace Mint allready. I guess, that nat the time of the next system upgrade I have accustomed to Unity and will be back with Ubuntu. I'm a little annoyed, that I probably listened too much to that Unity bashing thats en vouge now.