Linux Mint Cinnamon Post Install

Metro Theme - gets rid of the ugly grey/black menus

http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/188

Cinna Dock Plus - Docky without all the dependencies
http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/extensions/view/23

Default gnome icons to get rid of the green.
Themes/Other Settings

Opera (Developer)  for Linux - Finally, Opera supporting linux again
http://www.opera.com/developer

Cinnamon on OpenSUSE - Gnome 2 style

 

If I had to start someone on linux today, I would probably start them on openSUSE with Cinnamon.

It's a more familiar, Windows XP/Gnome 2 style interface, without too many surprises.

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:GNOME_Cinnamon

But I still prefer Gnome3 with Docky, panel docklet s,evil icon status forever and pidgin integration.
And Tom's Hardware offers some fixes for Gnome 3 too, in their review of Fedora 16

Windows Vista is still my favorite desktop ui. Discuss.