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Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME originally developed for Linux Mint and is a fork of GNOME 3.x attempting to provide a modern but traditional and highly functional user interface for Linux users.
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Pros
Pro Cinnamon provides control of icon placement on multiple monitors
Cinnamon provides control of the placement of desktop icons on multiple monitor setups. This feature has been buggy, but in my testing of Linux Mint 19, this feature appeared to be stable. Thus, Cinnamon joins KDE and Windows in enabling this capability. For example, in a setup with 2 or 3 monitors, you can put the desktop icons on the right-hand monitor. With other DEs, the icons always move to the left-hand monitor.
Pro You can easily get it to look like Windows
You can get it to closely look and behave like Windows with considerable ease. This is a good thing for those switching from Windows, because it gives them a familiar environment, cutting down on the learning curve a bit. Among the popular DE's this is the one that gets you closest with great ease.
Cons
Con Needs more choices for useful panel applets
Cinnamon still lacks some useful choices for panel applets compared to what other desktop environments offers. For example, Xfce is much better at managing panels and comes with a rich choice of useful panel applets.