The most popular version of Linux Mint is the Cinnamon edition. Cinnamon is primarily developed for and by Linux Mint. It is slick, beautiful, and full of new features.
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment. It doesnโt support as many features as Cinnamon but itโs lighter on resource usage.
MATE is a classic desktop environment. It is the continuation of GNOME 2, which was Linux Mintโs default desktop between 2006 and 2011.