Ask HN: What is the best Linux distro for a development laptop?
Arch Linux<p>If you want a developer laptop you want modern hardware. If you want to run modern hardware you want a modern kernel.<p>In your case (since your hardware is a little old), you might not care about support from recent kernels but still want modern compilers, toolchains, etc available to you.<p>You also probably don&#x27;t want it to break every 6 months when you have to system upgrade. Rolling release is the best.