I’ve been using Mint Mate for a few years now. My travel laptop is this little Acer with a Celeron, 2gb ram and 32gb on board SSD that I got for free. It runs smoother and faster than the new i5 powered Windows 11 computers I’ve used. I swear you can run that shit on a PC powered by a graham cracker.
This is why I only buy cell phones that have BNC connectors.