content: Mint has two (kernel) versions, one of them based on the Ubuntu kernel, and LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) which as you may have guessed uses the Debian kernel. Mint also comes with tons of software included that makes your life a little bit easier if you're not familiar with using bash. In my opinion, Cinnamon (Mint's default Desktop Environment) is far superior to Unity (Ubuntu's default DE) That said, they both have different versions of the same distro with alternate desktop environments pre-installed. (XFCE, KDE, MATE, Cinnamon, etc)