n. I did once have Debian installed on a very old computer, about 12 years ago, so knew how stable it was, although the install was more difficult than average.

Long story short, I decided to give MW a try on the laptop, and while the install took a bit longer, it runs beautifully! I had tried Vectorlinux Light, a distro I used to favour as it was so fast, but there were issues .... with rebooting as I recall.

Anyway - currently best pleased, and I guess wanting to point out, that the sometimes obvious suggested modern light weight distros don't always do what is hoped. I did try quite a few, and each had issues, whereas this MW seems rock solid, and is reasonably fast given the age of the laptop.

Oops sorry, I seem to have lost half of original post!

MW = MX Linux, I'm guessing.

Along with a few other distros that are built to be used on old equipment, they have to include lots of older driver software, something that some lightweight distros don't include, & why some people have trouble with them.

Sorry - yes MX Linux :-)

Very sweetly running.

Thanks - will take a look.

Does it run as a live distro from USB?

I see it needs 1.5Gb memory and I only have 1Gb.