
You don’t have to throw away your old PCs and laptops.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, just pick any distro. All distros are free and can run on ~512MB RAM or less. We purposefully included many distros in our list so you have more options to choose from. Come on, how is that distro still relevant and good in 2022? And don’t get us started on how each list is just a rehashed version of the same 5 distros. It took us 7 months to compile this list and a few weeks to update it with new data! We’ve seen new lists that included distros with their latest update being in 2005. Sure, there are other similar lists our there, but this one has up-to-date info and we’ve personally tried and tested (almost) every distro on our old laptops. Actually, some of them fit both our categories.

With the feedback and requests we got from our Best Linux Distros for Gaming list, we had to do another list of the best lightweight Linux distros.
