[deanhills]

Start here:

https://lubuntu.me/

There's an official Ubuntu spin for pretty much all needs. It just works and the support is easy.

Sounds brilliant - particularly since I was looking for an alternative for an OS for my next hardware - I've become completely anti-Windows from a security point of view. Like from my experience with the loads and loads of security updates we have to endure and not all of them being happy with one another - like creating conflicts with applications - I'd have been looking at an alternative that is more secure. Maybe lubuntu will do that for me.

Am definitely going to try it out within the next year. I imagine one would then purchase one of those cheaper DOS desktop computers without Windows and just start from scratch with the kernel. Probably going to be a great learning experience - everything from scratch and the roots up. Cool!