I recommend Mint as it’s overall a fantastic distro. Better than the majority. And it’s not just for beginners. It’s full blown Linux so it can do anything.
They have an XFCE version so try that too, as well as the MATE version. All 3 desktops are quite light.
I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu and it’s flavours simply because they have Snaps so deeply embedded now it will spoil your experience.
MX-Linux is also a great distro and quite light. Antix is even lighter and maintained by the same team as MX.
Opensuse is always a great choice, and their KDE implementation is quite good. So if you want KDE try opensuse Leap. (Don’t use tumbleweed on a Mac because the proprietary drivers for Mac tend to break with frequent updates).
I’m running Mint on my 2012 Mini and it works great. Tried a few others but I find Mint the best.
No, I don’t think so, as Red Hat only source revenue is RHEL and cloud, not fedora. And RHEL still open source, just you can’t get the builded binary from red hat, but you can build it yourself, as open source means the code is available for public, and it’s available for public, and most of the codes are in CentOS stream, https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src
And most of the Enterprise linux downstream could inspect and use rhel code, just the binary and how to build is restricted, it’s still adhere with the GPL/LGPL in my opinion
I recommend Mint as it’s overall a fantastic distro. Better than the majority. And it’s not just for beginners. It’s full blown Linux so it can do anything.
They have an XFCE version so try that too, as well as the MATE version. All 3 desktops are quite light.
I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu and it’s flavours simply because they have Snaps so deeply embedded now it will spoil your experience.
MX-Linux is also a great distro and quite light. Antix is even lighter and maintained by the same team as MX.
Opensuse is always a great choice, and their KDE implementation is quite good. So if you want KDE try opensuse Leap. (Don’t use tumbleweed on a Mac because the proprietary drivers for Mac tend to break with frequent updates).
I’m running Mint on my 2012 Mini and it works great. Tried a few others but I find Mint the best.
Fedora Xfce is also great on old HW, and have SELINUX if you are paranoid with security.
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No, I don’t think so, as Red Hat only source revenue is RHEL and cloud, not fedora. And RHEL still open source, just you can’t get the builded binary from red hat, but you can build it yourself, as open source means the code is available for public, and it’s available for public, and most of the codes are in CentOS stream, https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src
And most of the Enterprise linux downstream could inspect and use rhel code, just the binary and how to build is restricted, it’s still adhere with the GPL/LGPL in my opinion