Tweak said:
Mint I must say is probably one of the easier to start with
I don't really know that I would say it's any easier than any other flavor of Linux, but since what they call the main version (therefore probably the most often downloaded version) comes with the GNOME desktop, GNOME has always felt like a more Windows based organization of features to me, it could feel more familiar to Windows users. But then so would any GNOME desktop builds. Although KDE is nice, sometimes it seems like things aren't were they should be, so it could seem a little more difficult to navigate initially.
Mints panels can also be a bit glitchy. Sometimes panel applets just detach/remove themselves from the panel. I've had the applet to show open windows on the panel remove itself, so attempts to minimize application windows appears to close the application because it just vanishes when you minimize something. Unless you know to look for this, this can be frustrating. I've never experienced this with any other Linux builds that I've tried, and looking on the Mint forums, it isn't just me that has this issue.
Plus some of the applets themselves are a bit buggy, and it's not an easy task to remove a buggy applet from the panel.