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It's not a bad shout for beginners by any stretch, but it has a massively overdone reputation for beginner-friendliness that is not really deserved
Cinnamon, for one. Yes, it looks kind of like Windows. But the similarity is surface deep, and it's also pretty janky- by far the biggest resource hog of all the main DEs, lots of weird snagging bugs and stability issues. I've always found it very unsatisfying.
I personally use MATE quite a lot and I enjoy it, but I wouldn't really be recommending that to Windows users either; it's pretty old school at this point.
Keep recommending Mint to people by all means, though. If you like it and it's what you use, that's still a great recommendation. There is fundamentally no reason why beginners shouldn't use it as their first distro.