Old laptop got boosted. Wasn't updated for 6 years. Microslop tried to install Win11, then said buy new hardware, then tried to install anyway. Didn't worked. Zorin OS works great. Will also try out Lint Cinnamon, Cachy, Pop and some Arch.
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Zorin is where I landed. Mint was very ugly in my view and the GUI “app store” for it was missing key programs I wanted. Zorin’s has had every program I want to install so far. Mint did “just work,” but Zorin did too.
GUI looks really good on this one!
Cinnamon DE looks very...2008, yeah. Mint is also the only Stable distro for me to make it not just through installation from a live USB but actually install and load non-free nshitia drivers on an old GTX1060 with a corei5 7600. CachyOS is what I use and adore normally but I needed Stable for an infrequently used old PC. You'd think the main culprit would be the damned 1000 series GPU but nope that was only true for Debian and LMDE which I gave up on instead of fighting with. Figured it'd be faster to distro hop...nope!
OpenSUSE couldn't handle the MSI B250 motherboard of all things, crash kernel panic couldn't even boot into live USB. Fedora complained about missing CPU instructions but loaded live USB except the installer app would just crash when trying to open it. MX Linux would boot but then black screen after 5 minutes, not enough time to install non-free drivers and not even ttyl mode was functional.
Zorin was next on my list I'm curious to see lol. Linux hates this PC.
FYI You can add more repositories to Mint's manager. I do wish it included more out of the box but I suppose it's faster as-is.