@jpm Grab a few Debian-based distro ISOs, burn them to a USB drive and boot em up one by one to see what you like. I recently upgraded my ancient ThinkPad T430s which half its shit was not working / detected by the version of Ubuntu MATE I had installed on it, so over a few nights I picked up some other distros and tried them one by one. Eventually I settled on Linux Mint Debian Edition, am very happy with my choice. Most kids nowadays use GNOME, and it’s nice I guess but some of its paradigms didn’t rub well with me, hence sticking with Cinnamon (what LMDE uses as a DE).