if you haven't been on a BSD and depending on how much RAM the notebook sports, you might look into GhostBSD as well. It's based on FreeBSD, works pretty decently on my Dell Inspiron 1525 from 2009 (running LXQt on it, too) and it comes with a Live USB image for trying out/checking Hardware support..
Other than that many folks already mentioned NetBSD.
Tionisla
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2026-10-19 11:40:42 UTC
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