Hey all I was wondering which Linux distro you recommend for performance on low-end machines and why? 
I’ve been thinking about swapping to Linux for game dev for a while now but my laptop can barely even play Minecraft let alone develop detailed games. 
No arguments here please just good old sharing and caring <3
Lubntu. Lightweight Ubuntu. You can add any .deb package.
Ubuntu Studio : as light as Lubuntu, but it’s more customizable(it uses XFCE), and came with tons of studio’s apps, like Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, etc.
For some reason my laptop had issues installing Lubuntu, it can install Ubuntu perfectly fine so that’s really weird.
Ubuntu Studio sounds good I will have to try that out!
Is Unity compatible with other Non-Ubuntu distros?
Arch Linux is working great for me.
I’m particular to Gentoo Linux.
It compiles everything it possibly can from source. This lets you selectively enable and disable features via “USE flags,” whereas other distros give you binaries that have everything enabled that a user might possibly need (and thus lots of additional dependency bloat).
I also prefer portage (Gentoo’s package manager) to APT because it’s tidier and makes it very easy to write your own packages (a few lines of python code), tracking dependencies and doing reversible, sandboxed installs instead of going “./configure; make install” and adding binaries behind the package manager’s back that then cease to work when the system libraries are updated because they’re not automatically recompiled.
Unity, Steam, Unreal Engine, Blender, Firefox, VirtualBox, Sublime Text, Rider, Krita and everything I need for development work nicely.
I’m going to try this one out on my netbook.
That’s interesting I have to look more into it, I’ve been using Ubuntu and CentOS for pretty much all my Linux needs so I’m really used to those now, about time I branched out. - Also I’ve never heard of “Krita” until now and it looks amazing! O.O