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I'm looking for a lightweight, low requirement distro to run on this WROL computer project I'm building. It will either be based on a raspberry pi 3 or an old netbook. It needs to be able to be able to easily browse various file types and archives without internet. I probably will never use it to browse the web, just files and a couple of different applications like VLC. I've also never used Linux before, except rasbian. I considered AntiX, but their site has communist junk on it, so that's out.

I'm looking for a lightweight, low requirement distro to run on this WROL computer project I'm building. It will either be based on a raspberry pi 3 or an old netbook. It needs to be able to be able to easily browse various file types and archives without internet. I probably will never use it to browse the web, just files and a couple of different applications like VLC. I've also never used Linux before, except rasbian. I considered AntiX, but their site has communist junk on it, so that's out.

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Here are a couple requirements I can think of for you:

Select a lightweight graphical interface at install time. Maybe Xfce, but there may be others.

Select a distro with dependency aware package manager. Most have this. This way you only install what you need.

If you really need to watch storage install i486 binaries or, "-oS," (size optimized) if available - will be smaller but still work with your CPU.