One thing that this article missed is that CurseForge is not the only mod platform — there’s also Modrinth, which bans most of the things mentioned, on this article.

That hardware is very powerful, so Linux Mint (maybe Debian Edition) will do the trick.

Web browsing, writing, playing Minecraft, and maybe some more things.

I did do some research, and there is a YouTube channel called “Old PC Gunk and Stuff”, that tried out a laptop (that has very similar specs to mine (same model, too), but mine has twice the storage and RAM), with multiple Linux Distros and Windows 11 LTSC.

Apparently, Mokha (Bodhi uses it and he tested it out, altho Chromium outperforms Firefox) and IceWM (AntiX uses it, and AntiX uses Firefox and yet outperformed all other than Mokha by twice the performance).

One downside though is that both Mokha and IceWM are X11-bases, albeit I’m not aware of how bad that is, security-wise.