There is very little time left for the new version of Linux Mint 18 to be released to the general public with the new Cinnamon 3 and MATE 1.14 by default. And while that happens, Antergos, the famous distribution that is based on Arch Linux, has already released a special version to get these desktops by default.
As many of you know, Antergos like Arch Linux, are rolling release distributions, that is to say, they do not release versions every x months but they incorporate the news as updates. But in this case, the Antergos team has released a special repository for pacman as well as several packages for the transition and update from which Antergos users can have the latest versions of Cinnamon and MATE, which in short, we can affirm that Antergos has an update or new version. You can find the official and extra repository for Antergos here, if you are really interested in using these desktops in your Antergos, but before installing it you should read wiki informationBecause there are some problems if we really install it like the rest of repositories, setbacks that can turn into misfortunes if not read in detail.
Antergos already has Cinnamon 3 and MATE 1.14 in a special repository for its users
Still, it seems that there are no serious problems and users are updating their Cinnamon or their MATE to the latest versions. Although it is true that the Antergos community is characterized by using Gnome as the main desktop, but you can install any desktop you want, even KDE.
In any case, it seems that the future of Antergos as an independent Gnu / Linux distribution is more than assured or at least that seems to be due to the success and the Community that is being created around it, something that is overshadowing the mother distribution, Arch Linux Do not you think?