I spent a few minutes setting up a Plasma desktop to resemble what I like about GNOME Shell. A screenshot doesn’t do it justice imho. Application Dashboard on Meta, Overview on Meta-W, a Panel and Icons-Only Task Manager set to Autohide at the bottom of each screen, and the Tiling Manager.
No need for anything particularly modern. Even on a ten year old laptop I’ve not noticed a difference (Windows, on the other hand, barely runs at all on that machine).