That’s really funny, because Cinnamon is the only one I have used… and I’m starting to get pretty sick of it. I’m not entirely opposed to a DE that looks similar to Windows, especially older versions of it that actually worked (relatively speaking, of course), but I don’t think that’s really what I actually want/care about.

Well, you know what they say about distrohopping. Usually, you don’t really want a new distro, you just want a new DE.