Very happy Slax user (recovery from USB stick only, not as a daily driver). Works great on older laptops, even from USB booting is pretty quick and the (quite b

Very happy Slax user (recovery from USB stick only, not as a daily driver). Works great on older laptops, even from USB booting is pretty quick and the (quite basic, but very functional) UI is pretty snappy. It has both 64 and 32 bit distributions, and uses apt as a package manager so it's easy to pick up if you know ubuntu/debian (and easy to search online for packages, compared to less used package managers). Would definitely suggest to anyone trying to squeeze another few years out of an old machine.