Everything you are shown follows the same look and feel allowing for a coherent experience.

It includes an addon manager for themes, widgets or plugins so you don't have to manually download them and place them in the theme directories.

It does not use GNOME's Client Side decorations.

Cinnamon has a GUI option for that.

Looks like Windows XP, Vista/7.

Both Gnome and Cinnamon got the same looking configuration panel. There are 40 sub-panels in Linux Mint Cinnamon's, whenever there a far less with Ubuntu Gnome 3's.

Windows, notification, smart corners, windows overlay, connection windows... you can have those in Gnome, but that requires compiz and other stuff.

Very easy to make this desktop your own both in terms of looks and functionality.

You right-click on the panel, then left-click on 'move' and finally you left-click at the desired location... see, it is easy - precisely three clicks of your mouse.

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.

Cinnamon is a modern desktop that has the latest features, but at the same time it sticks to its way as a classic desktop and ignores trends/hypes like client side decorations or popover menus.

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.

E.g vertical panels are now there.

Has a great community and is very well supported through Linux Mint website.

Your win+E, win+D etc are still working after migrating to Cinnamon from Windows.

It's very easy to customize using the built in theme and applet tools. It automatically installs themes and desktop/panel applets for you, so you mostly won't have to go search online for them.

Plenty of themes, ready and free to be downloaded and applied with just a couple of clicks in a few seconds, with the file sizes mostly around 0.5 - 1MB.

Cinnamon uses a traditional desktop userflow that most computer users are familiar with.

Intended for large-screen, non-touch devices that extend traditional concepts with functionality and good looking aesthetic.