I suggest sticking to your current desktop environment for a while to become more familiar with a Linux environment before exploring standalone window managers. They require more effort and configuration to customize, which can be challenging for newcomers to Linux. However, if you're still interested, you can find my dotfiles for this on my GitHub. I also found this helpful article and YouTube playlist on installing and configuring BSPWM. Feel free to reach out to me via private message if you decide to try BSPWM or have any questions; I can share my Discord with you.
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Basically just pick a distro and use it for 6 months without hopping
I have switched to brave for everything now and I really don't wanna go through the hassle of trying to convert package formats
It should run perfectly fine, Alpine is made to run on low-end machines and containers
I've tried the app image and it didn't work, I looked it up and the consensus is appimages won't run because of musl libc instead of glibc
I've tried installing thorium but I can't get it to compile correctly and I don't wanna sit there forever trying to get it working so I just gave up and installed chrome
i think it is lighter than Mint (Xfce) but i havent used Mint (Xfce) so i dont know how much lighter it is exactly, but it uses musl libc which has a much lighter and cleaner code base than glibc and it uses busybox coreutils instead of GNU coreutils and they are again much lighter it is also using OpenRC instead of SystemD for its init system
Wallpaper https://whvn.cc/6dlpr7
Un*x is just another way of saying Unix-like, sometimes its refereed to as *nix
this Wikipedia page talks about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix-like
Picom, my configs are on my Github