A good starting point for an alternative (and i admit, a bit retro) way is to look into RiscOS and Haiku: https://www.riscosopen.org/ https://www.riscosopen.or

A good starting point for an alternative (and i admit, a bit retro) way is to look into RiscOS and Haiku: https://www.riscosopen.org/ https://www.riscosopen.org/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ Both descendants of former commercial OSes and - at least in my opinion - way less bloated than the modern Linux Desktop. I personally use RiscOS as my daily driver and so far i am very statisfied.