[Request] lightweight distro

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For a old laptop with Intel atom processor and I think 2gb ram.

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Not sure. But I have other primary laptop. And this laptop is just sitting so I wanted try something with it.

If you just want to play around with it, I highly recommend some arch based distro (because you can find plenty of obscure TUI apps in the AUR) with a window manager (be it tiling like Qtile or stacking like Openbox).

If you want something preconfigured, I've recently found instantOS, which seems to work fine for that usecase.

I use this small laptop mostly for ebooks (using the excellent epy) and music, using one ot the TUI YouTube frontends.

Yes I can use it for reading. thank you for the suggestion. I will try instant os.