[Alex]

If it's an old machine i reccomend a light-weight distro, this could fall under any of the ubuntu distro's i would reccomend 'xubuntu' which is personally my favourite distro.

However if it's a powerful machine or you're an advanced linux user i would definately go with ARCH, amazing, fast, and of course incredibaly open source.


TL;DR

bad laptop: any ubuntu distro.
good laptop: Arch

(This is my opinion.)

It isn't that bad of laptop but I would prefer a lightweight distro just because it isn't use for much at this moment. Anymore suggestions for light weight distros other than linux from scratch fuck that shit.