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How to install Minecraft on Linux Mint?
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You can just download the offical Minecraft launcher for Linux but do yourself a favor and grab Prismlauncher. Even on Windows it's just overall better.
If I recall correctly Linux Mint has flatpak support out of the box so you should be able to download it from the flathub link on the offical Prismlauncher site.
On Ubuntu (gnome) I had problem with prismlauncher and the official flatpak. Atlauncher worked better for me though it has a worse logo and bad ressource pack integration
Pedantry
Mint required you to go and enable flatpak support, but it discusses that in the initial "setting up" GUI thing