Wow, they just keep going!

I’ve said this many times, and will continue saying this again and again:

When in doubt: Linux Mint will provide everything you’ll need. You can distrohop once you understand the basics, customizations and optimizations can come later.

TLDR: SerpentOS rebranded

When in doubt: Linux Mint.

You can find something more suitable for your need later on, but this should give you a baseline experience.

I would steer clear of labwc or other minimalist WMs when you’re just getting started. In fact, try nothing but the basics first.

Also a great way to confuse a command with a floppy disk drive.

My favorite distros are Gentoo and Debian.

I can say with confidence that Linux Mint is what you’re looking for.

The machine is so old that all distros play nice with it.

Lmao, I’m using X230 as my on-the-go laptop unironically. Also FYI, older machine might not work as well. RHEL based distros have started to remove the support for Sandy & Ivy in their next releases.

To answer your question, Linux doesn’t care which drive you put your /home. Hell, you can even mount /var or /usr on a different drive. It only care that you list it on fstab (or mount it manually, go to town!). It would just treat them like any other filesystem.

I’ve never heard of that 2.5 SSD being problematic for boot drive before.

Django and React??

Sounds a bit heavy for my taste, but all the best for the creators & maintainers!

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How about FreeBSD? Or a more desktop friendly counterpart of GhostBSD?

Run gentoo instead!