Linux Mint 4.0; first impressions

Installing it as a VM in Parallels, following these instructions as if it were an Ubuntu distro (which it is). I am pleased to say the following about Mint:

• It shaves several steps off my standard Ubuntu post-install procedure because Mint's maintainers think in similar ways
• It comes with a better selection of themes
  
• Single taskbar instead of two
• Genuine attempt to merge Gnome and KDE paradigms
  
• Its simplified "software portal" package finder is actually kind of cool
• No goddamn brown/orange color scheme. There's no polite way to tell Mark Shuttleworth that an OS color scheme can't be based on the color of shit.