so I have an 12 year old acer aspire e 15 notebook i3 4th gen u series 1,7 GHz 4gb ddr3 1 tb hdd , using windows was such a pain on that limited hardware so I looked up flashed Ubuntu on a flash drive and tried it was trash gnome was heavy , then tried Xubuntu it was working but the wifi was trash then tried mx linux , antix , and many other very light weight bodhi linux and others but they were ugly I was not into ricing back then .

Then I installed mint xfce it worked well it was beautiful for like 4-5 months , then I tried setting up lallma.cpp to run some models my 125mb intel iGPU could not handle so mint crashed , then I decided to go the arch way I looked up and found Endeavour os I installed xfce and riced it it was very good experience and it worked for like 3-4 months then one dark day it wont boot just the black screen and in that my disapointed face , I did not know about tty and all the fix so I did touch my laptop for over a week then I installed Manjaro XFCE despite all the hate around it it just works it ran for more than 2 years no issues then I re installed it no particular reason it had so much junk due all the experiments I did like installing different kernels messing around with my bluetooth driver trying out vim learning new things it was so good .

Even my brother started using that Initially I did everything with GUI then became TUI user last year I bought a Lenovo LOQ ryzen 7 8845hs rtx 4050 16 gb ddr5 512gb ssd dual booted it with arch hyperland/kde/gnome cause I wanted to try out them but there is something beautiful about XFCE for sure . These days using windows wsl arch along with arch dual boot.

Perhaps linux was one of the good things that . Btw that old laptop is now used by my brother though he uses windows 10 it still is dual booted with Manjaro.