I used Xubuntu and LMDE until Windows 7, because it came with my laptop and I could use Linux on a cloud IDE anyway.

But with the end of life for windows 10 in October, I switched back to Linux and I'm quite happy.

I'm running Manjaro with Xfce on my 4 year old LG Gram and it's really snappy while only using 900MB idle memory.

I run manjaro on a 12 year old Thinkpad and it's the best computer I've ever had. It needed a CPU upgrade, but now I can do all my development work on this ancient beast.