for old linux try redhat or suse for soft landing (do not try softlanding however) or slackware for a hard landing
for modern linux i can only recommend a few that i tried - mint, suse for binary distros and gentoo/funtoo for source
and when at it - i recommend you try freebsd for a desktop driver, its much better than i ever thought possible

mrau wrote on 2021-12-14, 08:09:

for old linux try redhat or suse for soft landing (do not try softlanding however) or slackware for a hard landing
for modern linux i can only recommend a few that i tried - mint, suse for binary distros and gentoo/funtoo for source
and when at it - i recommend you try freebsd for a desktop driver, its much better than i ever thought possible

I keep hearing this. I've used Linux on and off for 20 years now, and never tried BSD. Maybe I really ought to install and try out FreeBSD on a VM..

Starts downloading FreeBSD 13.0 x64 and VirtualBox 6.1

Window Maker is what I used on Red Hat 7.3 on my 2o0mmx box. Removed all the heavy cruft-Nautilus, Gnome, and heaps of others. Quite happy with it being my first dedicated Linux system. I still have that hard drive in storage which works perfectly.