I do not like Gnome 3 (Unity) found it to be buggy and i tried LinuxMint liked it tried a few others and then i stumbled up on UbuntuMate and found it to just work very good and i like the clutter free and it came with Openshot and Brasero installed by default and they both work nice for music burning cd's converting mp's and video editing so i found it to be out of the box a complete working replacement for win7 or even my mac mini witch is what i used to use for music and video editing
but LinuxMint is also nice