I installed it on a very old Dell 8500 Pentium 4 laptop and it seems to work quite well.I like that it has the number of items and free space at the bottom of the window along with the search at the top and the side bar folders. Is that the standard install, or would I have to tweek it? I tried a different Linux distro a couple of years ago and I found I missed that stuff. I can't remember what distro but I know it was not Mint.
I have made very little tweaks. Only changed into a dark theme because I like a dark screen.
So what you see there is by default.
I think you will like it.
It has less overhead than ubuntu.