I was an MX user. It looks nice out of the box (better than Mint at the time) and the "flagship" version runs smooth on old laptops, probably thanks to Xfce. Side note, MX has a rare feature, it provides a choice between two init systems.
Drito
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Its not default behaviour, some people may not want images to be displayed like that. You can apply rules on any application.
If I understand what you mean this is a solved problem.
As instance in bspwm I just wrote this line in the config then all images opens as a floating window.
bspc rule -a Sxiv state=floating
I guess many other tiling WM are able to do that.
15 years ago I would have been surprised to hear that Thinkpads are cheap laptops !
About the status bar I want to suggest Tint2 because it is relatively easy to setup. You can create new widgets by writing an "executor" in bash. This is how I display the window name in my Tint2 panel.
execp_command = xdotool getwindowfocus getwindowname
There are more advanced executor examples here. https://github.com/IanLeCorbeau/tint2-executors/tree/master
The other suggestions are also nice, maybe more featured, but Tint2 was just less intimidating for me.
Everything audio needs Alsa including Pipewire.
Clear Linux looks very performant which is interesting for gaming. And it provides choice between DEs !
Xfce reminds me how bad are modern softwares.
Xfce keeps an old design and the result is more flexible and fast than modern DEs. Whats wrong with nowadays developers ?
"Linux" is owned by Linus Torvalds. Can he ask this foundation to change its name ?
I'm annoyed when there are many differents isos.
Mint works and you can recommend it, but it is a mess with its two versions. The "normal" version is based on Ubuntu, but Ubuntu is already an user friendly distro. Mint also has LMDE version, it makes more sense because directly based on a "rough" Debian, but it seems less popular.