• Plasma is more similar to Windows
• Plasma is more customizable
• Plasma is just as beginner-friendly
• Plasma has more features
• Plasma is more actively developed
• Plasma looks better

Don’t get me wrong, Cinnamon is fine, but it gets recommended religiously to beginners for some reason. It just doesn’t make sense, so I will keep repeating this, not least to keep alive the ancient linux tradition of Desktop wars.

Still, any Windows to Linux transition is a step forward and I support this, upvoted.