Beautiful Linux for an old PC

Question

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Good day! Looking for a Linux distribution for an old computer.
Patient: Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, 32 GB HDD, some old Dell 3D accelerator.
Purpose: "typewriter" and browsing.
Requirements: pleasing to the eye ("beautiful wallpapers", animation, and other "fake whistles"), as easy to use as possible (not necessary, but, of course, desirable - easy to set up).
PS Googling gave very conflicting results.))

Answer 1

elementary os is very lightweight and has a mac-like shell.

Answer 2

Arch+XFCE. Why Arch? Because you will install only what you need, and not a ton of crap, kindly stuffed into the distribution kit by some uncles. Well, the rat works and is pleasing to the eye.

Answer 3

Install xUbuntu =) Or Linux Mint with xFce shell =)

Answer 4

@DonSinDRom , Jolicloud is an amazing Linux OS! There is also the integration of many cloud storages into one large space + feed from all social networks.

Answer 5

What about Puppy or Debian Sqeeze + OpenBox? What are the "pitfalls"?

Answer 6

Bodhi fits all your requirements.

Answer 7

Try any distribution with E17. I would try to start with Sabayon (well, or Genta, if you collect) and Vector.
I also used a wonderful thing - elive. I ran it on a similar x86 machine (only there was a centrino processor and 192 MB of memory) - it was quite possible to work for myself.

Answer 8

if Linux is like a brother to you, then look towards gent and openbox, if simplicity is more necessary, then opensuse with xfce or lxde. you can experiment with arch on openbox more