The Unity desktop is precisely the reason I use Mint instead of Ubuntu on my Linux box.. ;-)
Unfortunately, the laptop I rebrained with Linux doesn’t have the graphics capacity to run Cinnamon, so it has Mint with the Mate face (as being a bit less taxing on the graphics processor.)
I discovered to my surprise that I prefer Unity after switching to Mint 17.3. I've got everything set up on 17.3 so it's a pain to switch but I'm going to move to Ubuntu 16.04 in a couple of weeks.