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Forget web browsing with 4GB RAM. You can completely disregard the comments recommending a "lite DE" when merely opening a modern web site will put the whole PC into crawling. The 150 MB more or less for different desktops are completely irrelevant then.
The best "newbie friendly" distribution is just plain Fedora Workstation but with only 4GB RAM it will be a pain to use no matter what.
Edit: If you're a KDE user yourself, you're best equipped to answer KDE-related questions.
I think 4GB is plenty for web browsing if there are not many tabs opened. Though the laptop will still be slow because of the specs.