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I've never used KDE before, how does it compare to Cinnamon?
Cinnamon is kinda like KDE with all the options removed.
KDE is whatever you want it to be. Out of the box it looks similar to Windows, but you can turn it into a tiling window manager, or a clone of Gnome, without touching the command line.
This sounds extremely impressive to me, as customizing Cinnamon without using overly technical tools has been quite hit and miss for me.
Cinnamon is the only other desktop environment that I can really use besides KDE. To me they're equal in quality. Cinnamon does some things better than KDE, KDE does some things better than Cinnamon. It varies based on how each one is configured in your distro's repository more than anything. KDE on Arch is top notch. Cinnamon on Arch is hot garbage. Cinnamon on Ubuntu is usually really good, KDE on Ubuntu was barely usable last time I tried it.
If you know a lot about desktop environments you could fix either one yourself but I only use them based on which one works better after I download it and configure basic settings.
KDE on Ubuntu. Try Kubuntu specifically, it's quite nice.
This sounds weird to me, why is there such a big difference?
I like the Wayland support from KDE Plasma for things like HDR and Freesync. If you don't need advanced stuff like that then it's preference really, Cinnamon would probably be my second choice.