Dont choose your distro based on looks. For example, of you liked fedora but not gnome, try fedora KDE.

I was running mint with 4gb with steam and signal on background as well as Firefox with 2 tabs open. Not perfect but definitely usable

I know it’s Linux memes but its better than using a bit of both instead of but trying Linux at all. We need more casual people to try Linux. Not just diehards.

Edit: typo