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Distribution: Mainly Devuan with some Tiny Core, Fatdog, Haiku, & BSD thrown in.
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Lots of people,including me, use Debian.
Do a standard install, you get Gnome desktop & lots of good apps to do almost anything.
Size of install approx 3.7gb
I have been very happy with vector linux lite on my laptop.
like all slackware not for the uninitiated but lightning fast.
also slackware doesn't do the absurd crap about devel packages like all "other" linux distros do.
makes it the only distro besides Linux from scratch you can actually program on.
I'm running Slackware 13.37 just fine on my old-ass Thinkpad T41 (512 Mb RAM). If you really know what you're doing you can get way tiny in size. But that's true for many distros. Debian, for example. That would be a good middle ground between the configurability of Slackware and the user-friendliness of, say, Ubuntu, which I ran on this thing for five years before switching to Slack.
But ultimately any will run fine, so it's up to you.
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