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Which distro should I use?
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I'd suggest EndeavourOS with XFce (removing the endeavouros addons after installation to save ram). I can make it boot at 460 MB of RAM. Hyprland uses about 900 MB. Might be of interest with just 4 GB of RAM. For example, on Omarchy, which uses arch/hyprland, it uses about 900 mb of ram, but it's super slow with btrfs and some changes they've made. So on an old PC, XFce might be your friend. XFce can be themed really well, here are my attempts:
macos: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/114009689446895521
macos classic: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/114875117360852977
win11: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/114874435763184758
beos: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/114751365408638345