If you do as several here have suggested and leave KDE aside, but assuming you want some DE or WM + applications, my slightly related experience:

- SlackwareARM -current 32-bit (pre-15.0) with Xfce ran well on my Raspberrry Pi 4. (Upgrading to 15.0 32-bit, or to 15.0 or -current 64-bit, is still to do.)

- ArchLinuxARM 32-bit with Xfce is working well on a Chromebook, albeit after a lot of reading and messing around. I’d rather be running Slackware on it, but the instructions on the ArchLinuxARM wiki were quite straightforward, so I started with that. (Installing turned out to be much less straightforward after several updates since the original instructions were written. The hardware is not well supported, so I find it quite something that anything other than its now-unsupported ChromeOS can run on it at all. Hats off to those who figured out how to coax ArchLinuxARM to work on it.)

TKS

This thread is from March.

Without a response to post #12 - or indeed any response at all - answering a question that wasn't even asked seems a waste of time...

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This thread could be referenced thousands of times by all those with 32-bit PC looking for good distro.

There are dozens of similar threads, many of them started by a single-post user who never returns to clarify.

The ones which receive thousands of views are those where details have been provided and the original poster has engaged in discussion - neither of which has happened here.

(The user who started this thread is a long-time LQ member who has been back, but has so far ignored the requests for further information.)


Without details, what's the point in doing anything beyond referencing https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&status=Active&category=Old+Computers&architecture=ix86 ?

(For the benefit of anyone with the same needs, the only OS currently in that list meeting the KDE requirement appears to be Q4OS, running Trinity.)

Trinity is available in binary packaging form (except where noted) for the following distros that offer 32bit variants:

1. Debian
2. Devuan
3. FreeBSD (not binaries)
4. Mageia
5. MX Linux
6. openSUSE Tumbleweed
7. Slackware

*shrug* I assume DistroWatch requires it to be packaged in official repos for it to count.

Otherwise, I guess someone would need to correct them.