Edit: misspelled gen
Edit2: smooth Firefox scrolling provided by MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 ... turn off smooth scrolling in Firefox settings
No disrespect to any of the hardworking mint people intended, their work clearly fills a need.
While I haven't used it, the Cinnamon desktop has been very attractive to Linux newcomers - recently a rapidly-growing group.
If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 before you change to Mint 20.
That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.
Oh, and I prefer MATE. But I just installed Cinnamon and then installed MATE using Synaptic. All working well.
If you are running mysql 5.7 in Mint 19, update your databases to be compatible with mysql 8.0 before you change to Mint 20.
That mainly means changing your engine to InnoDB instead of MyISAM, and the character set to utf8mb4 from latin1.