Just tried it, not a fan
This seems like a step backwards. We now have this space wasting bar at the top, and all the right click configuration menus for configuring things no longer work (Such as that menu, or the task bar items, etc.). The top bar just appears to do what the start menu does, but just with bigger icons and you have to wait for a tooltip for a description on what the program is.
Here is a news flash devs, tooltips do not work on touch displays, tooltips are bad! Stupid unknown icons are bad, text is good.
I am not able to install to HDD (Testing on a laptop with a dead HDD), but I am running the live DVD, I notice almost all configuration changes are missing, you can't even test compiz because although it is installed, the configuration manager is not (WTF) and Mint has no way to edit it. You can't make the "Menu" more meaningful, it now uses ugly icons and is way to small, you can't make it larger like previous versions, where is the favorites? The search doesn't seem to find anything anymore, doesn't seem to even offer the ability to install the package that you searched for.
What is with these missing features, if it its a live DVD failure, this is a terrible demo of their new product. If it looked like this on my first impression, I probably would be fine, but as an upgrade, this feels like a downgrade.
And My god is firefox ugly, but that's not Mint's fault.
WHY IS THE LOGOFF WHERE THE CLOSE WINDOW BUTTON IS!??
I have accidentally clicked this thing 100's of times already when aiming for the close or minimize buttons.
I remember installing my older version of Mint, it was easy, I had the system set up how I wanted, packages queued to be installed, configurations set, drivers installed, all ready to go from the Live DVD, now I can't do any of that?
