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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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[–] • 2 pts

Puppy Linux has always been my go-to for light and small. Not sure if it would work for your requirements

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

It'll have at least 2 gigs of ram, so the minimum requirements are definitely within capability. All I want to do with it is view PDFs, videos and archives offline.

[–] • 1 pt

It's a good little solution then. I mainly use it as my rescue thumb stick, but it's really full featured because of the two distros it mainly works off of.