Peppermint is good, but wasn’t on this list. Puppy is good to have on a stick as a Swiss Army knife/Knoppix type tool.
I kind of liked the LXPup and Fatdog puppy versions - they were fuller and more user friendly.
I’ve got an Acer Aspire One netbook that requires display drivers that most of the lightweight distros don’t have. That and everything is slow on it. 1gHz AMD processor and 4gb RAM and it’s just a slug. LXLE Linux and Linux Lite run ok.
It’s got an HDMI port and is the only machine I have that does so I’ve been trying different distros to try and make a streaming device for the TV. Tried Raspbian for PC the other day but it’s Debian and the newest Kodi you can use is Krypton 16 which doesn’t have the PlutoTV addon which is the free streaming service I use most. Leai 18 and Matrix 19 have it but you can only use an Ubuntu based distro to get those.
For some reason, Kodi streams great on the Acer but surfing with a browser is really slow even with EtherNET cable. Even FR loads slow and watching a video via a browser just won’t work.
None of the “just enough os to run kodi” systems worked either. LibreELEC, OpenELEC etc because they run old versions of Ubuntu that only have Krypton 16 Kodi and hence, no PlutoTV addon.
This sounds interesting; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woof_(software)
Woof is a software application used to build a Puppy Linux distribution from another Linux distribution.[3][4][5] This application must be run inside Puppy Linux, and an internet connection is required in order to download the other Linux distro’s binary packages.[6]
It’s been a long time since I tried LXLE Linux on the Acer and I think the newest version of Kodi was Krypton 16 at the time and so there was no PlutoTV addon yet. Might have to try it again.
Based on Ubuntu 18.04 no doubt. I did get the latest Kodi installed on 18.04 but it was tricky. Had to choose a certain Kodi repository to install 'prior stable' and that got me Leai 18 and then I added latest Kodi repository and did sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade kodi to get Matrix 19.
The other aggravation in trying to build a streaming box is that many of the Kodi streaming addons rely on youtube which requires signing in to youtube aka google.