I have to disagree here. I find using Cinnamon is very close to using windows.

So is KDE, that’s why I recommend it over cinnamon.

Everything hardware wise pretty much runs out of the box on all desktops and laptops I have installed it on.

That has nothing to do with your desktop environment!

Have been using it for years.

Just because you’re familiar with it doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for beginners. People want HDR, mixed refresh rates, and mixed DPI displays to work properly, they do on KDE, they possibly never will on cinnamon.

Immutability might be nice, but I think it’s also personal preference. Windows doesn’t have it so it might be a strange feature to new users coming from Windows.

Windows does have it… actually, it only has it. There’s no way to turn it off. And it’s not a personal preference thing at all, it’s objectively superior for a beginner, and anything you can do with a normal distro can still be done with an immutable one.