There's a "Cinnamon on Wayland (Experimental)" session for that. And also, installing a new DE.

why would you recommend an experimental DE to a newbie? it breaks in 2 weeks and all you hear is "linux from shit". not even directly, but through a friend of a friend, because they won't ask for your help again.

when I was looking at the viability of installing mint for common people, one of my criteria was to have kde plasma, because it's user friendly and evolves relatively quickly, in a good way. a common theme I was reading that yeah it is possible to install it manually, but it's less stable. I think I cannot afford the burden of taking upon the yech support for people and fixing an unsupported DE when it breaks, because it is complex software, with many moving parts that if the distro does not focus on always packaging correctly, if they don't test it but only rely on users to report issues, then that won't work reliably. If I want kde, I need a distro that takes it seriously and allows it as a default DE.