Not only Linux. Many people praise Apple for its radical "game changers", but I mostly use macOS because they haven't broken my workflows or muscle memory in the last thirteen years. It's a miracle in the world of commercial software, and it probably won't last as long as XFCE.

Cinnamon feels like XFCE's conceptual descendant, it doesnt break the desktop metaphor at all from win98/XFCE while having enough of the newer stuff if you want it.

It was what I used until recently and would go back to in a heartbeat.

And it makes you want to double your ram just like the first time you got win95

I don't care, my laptop has 32GB my desktops more.

So in a relative sense Cinnamon is vastly more efficient as percentage of system memory used.