I have an HP Pavilion laptop from my youngest daughter. I assumed possession when the HD failed and we gave her something else. I was running Ubuntu proper on it, version 20.04. But it was a bit too light to run the gui.
Because I want to use the machine as a native Linux, with some desktop, I am now trying out Lubuntu. Same kernel, same versions. But a lighter distribution. The laptop has a small coprocessor, little memory, but an extremely big (replaced by me) SSD hard disk. I want it to have a gui, because the laptop has a touch display and that makes some activities easier on a graphical screen. But the main work will be command line stuff.
Let's see how this experiment turns out ...