Maybe https://www.bunsenlabs.org/

Second this. Easy to use and regular updates

Aren’t some companies thinking of releasing TVs that won’t work unless connected to the internet?

Maybe some Machine Head?

Lutris is pretty good

Artix for similar reasons

Preferred the way the old version looked, but I can’t really fault liferea

That’s even worse!

I think there’s an Ublock rule to get around this.

A Thinkpad will have to do

It is. That or it was very coincidentally down for the exact amount of time as DDG.

XMMS, Beep, Audacious or whatever were always good enough.

Where’s the best place to start?

At least Reaper has Linux ports, better than nothing.

LFS?

And yay

Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?

I’d imagine it would work fine. You can always try Mint out from the LiveUSB and see if any issues occur.

The installer’s defaults should be enough to get it done without any hassle.

It was before I had a CD writer (or DVD drive!), and it came with Linux Format magazine. I think it was the easiest and most user friendly way of getting started at the time.

Mandrake > Ubuntu > Debian > Mint > Arch > Artix

Settled on Artix for openrc and all the aur goodness