I have a zip drive in a closet with a zip disk with most of my class work from college.

Regularly wish I could move back to Michigan.

You’re crazy!

Wouldn’t rsync be able to do this if their on the same network?

I’ve had good luck with Fedora on a 2013 MacBook Air. Granted I need the nonfree repository, but it does the job.

I don’t even believe on Jeebus!

Jim Banks is dumb on so many levels.

I started using dwm for the very reason OP asked. I wanted to remove the window decoration, have a more simplified view, and have full control over what my windows looked like. It works for exactly what I needed/wanted.

Switch to dwm. https://dwm.suckless.org/

Yes, I’m using a custom icon theme and set icons for those apps the theme didn’t have.

I’ve been happy with Pear Launcher.

I run Fedora 41 with Budgie on a low end Chromebook (sounds the same as you, Celeron N3060, 4 GB ram). Runs fine with no issues. I don’t do any power computing, but Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP are fine. It isn’t my work computer, mainly just in the living room couch computer.