Linux Mint 18.3 “Sylvia” is the latest iteration of the hugely popular distribution, featuring a few different desktop environments. I‘ve really grown to enjoy the Cinnamon environment, regardless of what distro I‘m using at the time, but obviously when using it within Linux Mint, you‘re getting the intended experience since Cinnamon was made for Mint.
That said, Cinnamon is the most popularly used environment, so this quick tutorial is based around that, but its pretty easily translatable to the other environments as well!