Re: [Trisquel-users] Cinnamon DE on Trisquel

[dguthrie]

The current version of Mint is based on the same Ubuntu LTS (at least from  
what I can tell). So packages will probably not break. Be careful not to  
upgrade any more packages than is necessary to install Cinnamon though. That  
could cause conflicts when you remove the Mint repositories. See my previous  
answer as well: you could try the official MATE development PPA, as they have  
similarities and you may enjoy using MATE as much as Cinnamon if you liked  
the GNOME 2 desktop environment.