Originally Posted by
HDQDD
I've run LMDE on some old laptops over the years and I really liked it. I think all desktops have their advantages/disadvantages. I've tried Gnome, xfce, cinnamon (mint) et al, but now I've settled on KDE Plasma. I think I like KDE mostly because of the customization aspects, great community, and they have a wealth of great apps.
For the older systems, most likely Cinnamon or XFCE (they could likely handle KDE, but extra resources are always good). I really want to set up one of my linux boxes as a faux macos box. I've been getting a lot of the "I'm calling from Microsoft and your box is attacking our system and we think it's hacked" calls lately.... so having VMs with Windows and macos just to string them along would be nice.