Best distro for old windows XP laptop computers?

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@nevj

No-one has mentioned the approach of

I already did that. Not yesterday though…

Revitalizing a really(!) ancient machine

I helped a friend here to get started on the way towards Linux, and his old, but still usable Laptop got a 32 bit Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE. He was amazed how well this system performed on his old laptop. He gave me his very first ancient laptop just to see if I can put Linux onto it too? It’s a HP pavilion ze4200, AMD Athlon XP2200+ (mobile) and having 512MB RAM. Originally Windows XP was installed, booting in several minutes, I’d say it was unbearable… This laptop has no real use today, so there…