Overview
Cinnamon is a desktop environment maintained by the Linux Mint team. Forked from GNOME Shell, it provides the user with panels, menus, window management, hot corners, and more. The user-interface is written in JavaScript, with core libraries being written in C.
Features
Panel
Cinnamon provides a traditional desktop experience out-of-the-box, with a panel that resembles the taskbar of Microsoft Windows. Panel items — called "applets" — can be organized freely. Additional applets can be downloaded from the internet, either from the Spices website or the applet manager included with Cinnamon.
Spices
Spices are cinnamon's names for add-on applets, desklets, themes, widgets, and more. They can be found at the Cinnamon Spices repository website.