I came to Linux Lite from some other "light" distros, which I still love (Xubuntu and LXLE), but neither approaches the wonderful simplicity of Linux Lite, which is why it's so much better for newbies (and technophobes, lol). I'm using it on an ancient old Dell desktop, one step up from an abacus, and it flies faster than did did when it was brand new running WinXP. If only the Web was HTML (hashatag #MakeTheWebHTMLagain!) it would be even faster!
Welcome to the forums, and to the best "newbie" distro ever! Oh and by the way, just because it's great for newbies doesn't mean newbies are the only ones who use it! Lots of superduper-techno-wizardly-geeky-Linuxmasters use it because it's simple and fast, and lets them just get their work done.
Enjoy!