My old virtual machine is tanked so I have to start over. What's a good lean GUI Linux distro?

I can handle command line, but I don't want to. I want graphical/easy install of brave browser, VPN software, and a shared folder with my windows machine. I'd rather not fart around with config files for hours just for this so I'm not interested in something that's more secure if it also means taking days to set up.

Ideally it would be as lean as possible. Since this is a VM, it takes space on my computer and since it's supposed to be a simple "barely more than Internet" box, it shouldn't take 40 or 50 GB. I was hoping for less than 10 or 20.