You can put Ubuntu on a 15 year old laptop, but it will be extremely slow. Lubuntu or Xubuntu would better suit the laptop.

There are several options. Alma/Rocky, Fedora, Debian, BSD, just to name a few.

I’m not saying that there aren’t alternatives to Xorg, or that Xorg is the greatest thing to come out of the 80s. Matter of fact, Mate was created because Gnome 3 was everything that no one wanted and a dev decided to create his own that looked and felt like Gnome 2. What I’m saying is that Xorg will never truly go extinct because someone will write software that supports xorg some form or fashion.

I’m using LibreOffice at the moment.

I feel that “I used Arch, btw” will show up on someone’s tombstone in the distant future.

Windows: Force your users to update at any moment and take forever to do so.

I know, not exactly the most original meme.

Your system has been up for a full year, I don’t know to be amazed or shocked.

If i’m not mistaken I don’t think that Fedora will be affected because Fedora is upstream from RHEL. Now distros such as Alma, Rocky, and EuroLinux may be affected because they are downstream from RHEL. But I can be wrong.

There’s going to be migration to Wayland at some point. TheLinuxCast made a great video on Youtube discussig this and the death of Xorg. However, with more distros going to Wayland, I don’t think that Xorg is going to die out, especially when it comes to the BSD side of things.