Harvey If its simply a matter of the system supporting 32bit only EFI with a 64bit CPU then that opens the door a bit more. You do not need a 32bit OS which increases the selection pool
@Axios took me a while too!..increases the pool a little more but interesting. not 32 only but the 64s with 32 bit support...I don't necessarily consider Fedora and Arch 'light' but you can make Fedora as vanilla as it comes. DNF is uncomplicated and fedora budgie is not upper tier budgie (to me vs solus, arch) but lots and lots of flavours...arch I have as my linux "in case of solus emergency break glass distro' and it's probably more of a complicated animal than it should be (maintenance commands are page-long encyclopedia and daily updates need two different programs to update etc) but arch is proud of that and its ok. eopkg up/rmo/dc
vs about fourteen weird -Args andpacaches
etc.
if you had 4 laptops that need OS's I would consider that a cool project! I would make one Solus XFCE for sure. this is a fantastic project because you can't make them all the same.
@elfprince had Zorin and Q. I have tried neither but hear incredible things about both. arch derivatives are always cool in their own right (endeavour, artix) but Alpine still my first rec if not going full OS. you are bascially on the starship enterprise right now🙂...