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Windows 10 theme for XFCE4 or Mate
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No KDE for new users, it's way too convoluted and bloated ui-wise. It also uses lots of ram, more than cinnamon. XFce is indeed much lighter than either, but it doesn't have enough desktop preference panels like Cinnamon does (e.g. printer panel).
KDE is incredibly "windows like", the "bloat" you might be refering to are options. The only criticism I agree with here is the footprint, KDE is indeed heavy and not recommanded for old machines.
Honestly I installed Kubuntu when I started trying Linux a couple of months ago and it's the system that I stuck with and wasn't completely confused, compared to the standard Ubuntu or Linux Mint which I tried beforehand and decided to uninstall