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"Fits linux" is an odd statement. Most of the things you stated can be done by changing the theme of most desktop environments. For performance, I used LXQT recently to revive an old laptop, it's great. https://lubuntu.me/

> old Windows laptop I'd suggest Lubuntu. https://lubuntu.me/ I have it running pretty well on a laptop that's close to ten years old.

> (uBlock now seemed to warn me about adware, not sure what's going on) The real Lubuntu website is https://lubuntu.me/ (it's linked from https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours)

Personal goto's: https://www.slax.org/ https://lubuntu.me/ # official ubuntu https://lubuntu.net/ # not ubuntu's :) Also usually try these on to see how they work: https://reactos.org/ http://kolibrios.org/en/ # just brilliant! and the OS size is refreshing. just did we allow other OS's to get to GB's big. rah! https://www.haiku-os.org/ # ya, I greatly miss BeOS 5

The official site is https://lubuntu.me/ btw.

Lubuntu plans to support Wayland in the 20.10 release by porting Openbox to Mir, which supports Wayland. https://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-development-newsletter-9/

Update: I see the Lubuntu 20.04 LTS has been released [1] since I posted earlier today. :) Kudos to the maintainers! I forgot to mention in my post above that I had purchased an SSD a while ago and this is what prompted me to consider the available options for updating/changing the OS. [1] https://lubuntu.me/focal-released/

Are they really mixing themes like this? https://lubuntu.me/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/video.png from the front page

Lubuntu 18.10 will have LXQt -- it's still beta: https://lubuntu.me/cosmic-beta-released/

>Interesting for a dist focused on resource constraints to be using the new/shiny instead of old and small. Lubuntu has shifted focus recently https://lubuntu.me/taking-a-new-direction/

> I tend to install FOSS because imo they are more "future-proof", but some of them are developed by companies (e.g., Fedora Linux) and that makes me wonder if they're truly future-proof. The story of CentOS should be telling that, no, many pieces of software that are backed by a company will not be future-proof and will probably experience certain changes as a consequence of that, be it being transformed to better fit corporate goals (CentOS Stream), or being retired eventually so the company may focus on something else (Atom), or will just be left to slowly rot over time as happens with most code (OpenOffice). Then again, it's not like open source projects are that future proof or safe from "drama" either - for example, the Lubuntu project has 2 homepages for no reason: the official one at https://lubuntu.me/ and some other one that serves old versions and is not trusted by my ad blocking solution https://lubuntu.net/ There are also cases, when open source projects experience fragmentation like happened with Gogs https://gogs.io/ and Gitea https://gitea.io/en-us/ and sometimes there are cases where particular individuals simply cannot work together and as a consequence pretty much the same happens, as was the case with Swoole and Open Swoole: https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src/issues/4434 Treat most pieces of software that you use as if they might not be there in a year. Or, alternatively, as if you might need to take over the maintenance of whatever you're using, if…

Several years ago (Maybe around 2014?), I set up an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 laptop, just to see how usable it was. It had a 1024x768 LCD panel, a Pentium III, and 128MB of RAM - which I upgraded to 512MB. I used the stock mechanical HDD, although in retrospect I think an IDE-to-CF adapter is the way to go (IDE-to-SD adapters exist, but they are slower than a decent CF card). My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I was able to install Lubuntu with LXDE (or maybe it was some other distro with LXDE?), and browse the modern web with Chromium - albeit painfully slowly. Around 15 seconds to load bare-bones pages like HN. I guess it was swapping to disk... I did test Firefox too, but it performed worse than Chromium. Lubuntu has changed their goals a bit since then, so YMMV if you wish to use it today: https://lubuntu.me/taking-a-new-direction/ "we will no longer primarily focus on older hardware" It's sad to see them change course, but I don't blame them.