Help for searching a new distro
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That's not your question, but I'm running Kinoite (which is basically Silverblue with KDE) on a 2015 MacBook with 8GB RAM and it runs perfectly smooth.
That being said, I can't personally recommend immutable Distros (at least Fedora's approach to it as I haven't tested others) to everyone. I think it fits to people who are fine with mainly using what flatpak has to offer and don't want to tinker with their system too much, or people on the other side of the spectrum who are fine with exploring toolbox / distrobox.
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I second this. A bare-min install of a majority of distros is going to do you more favors than looking for a distro that is made to be minimal. Honestly, minimal is going to rely more on your DE/WM than distro.
I also agree that Arch is going to require more learning curve if you don't have any experience with it, but that's up to you if you want to put time into it. If you do, I'd recommend vanilla Arch or if you want a GUI installer with a lot of DE/WM options then I'd opt for EndeavourOS.
I concur with Void, but that also may have a learning curve. I like Void, but I haven't tried it myself. I hear nothing but good about Fedora and openSUSE these days, too. I played with NixOS and I really like it, but you will spend months messing with Nixlang before you can really do anything with it (but its really fun to play with).
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There was an openSUSE suggestion, just a note that default install adds a lot of packages, at the preinstall summary you can click the software title and unchecke patterns you don't want, or go into further detail and check/uncheck single packages. You can make OpenSUSE as minimal as you like.
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Any Fedora Atomic desktop, or any UBlue one.
Immutable distros are the future of the Linux desktop. They work and they never break (I dare you to try).
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I'm guessing arch + hyprland isn't "easy weight"?
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