Just plain Debian, with either xfce or i3. I have a rediculusly old laptop that runs them both fine. I generally prefer i3 on it because the touchpad is pretty terrible, but xfce works well with a real mouse.
Debian won, I’m trying it first. So far so good, using KDE because Arch ran pretty well with it, but will likely try i3 if this gets slow. Side note: This is the first distro I’ve tried that shows accurate colors on my laptop! I’d resigned myself to always having a slightly washed out, slightly cool color palette. Not anymore! It looks normal!
Just plain Debian, with either xfce or i3. I have a rediculusly old laptop that runs them both fine. I generally prefer i3 on it because the touchpad is pretty terrible, but xfce works well with a real mouse.
Debian won, I’m trying it first. So far so good, using KDE because Arch ran pretty well with it, but will likely try i3 if this gets slow. Side note: This is the first distro I’ve tried that shows accurate colors on my laptop! I’d resigned myself to always having a slightly washed out, slightly cool color palette. Not anymore! It looks normal!
If you decide to give i3 a try, I recommend this repo as a sane starting config: https://github.com/shreyas-a-s/debian-i3