On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:54:56 -0700, RecentlyOrLately
wrote:

Thought I would play around with Linux Mint.

Is there a preferred desktop ?

Looking for a description of each to help make a decision.

Available a
Cinnamon
MATE
Xfce
KDE

The most (visually) like XP ?
Probably Mate.
Though you can install more than one DE on the same machine.
HTH
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