I will tell you same as I have told others (with at least a little experience... try KDE.. not a resource hog like Unity (Cinn is as bad as Unity, btw)...
Mint Mate is very clean from bloatware.. and if there is something you don’t like, easy to get rid of (not sure I can remember any bloatware, except for the audio player, which I didn’t like (man, I miss WinAmp :p)..
Give Mint Mate a try.. and for more flexibility in control of your computer, go KDE. A little more resource heavy, but many layers lower than many, if not most others. XfCE is hard to match, and both XF and KDE have been around for 2+ decades.
I agree about XFCE, have been using it since Redhat 8.0 came out. (Release date was Sep 2002)
It has been my preference since then.
Will look at the other. Thanks.
Start here (xmms), and maybe follow the links to something more recent. I just checked and atrpms has xmms available.