A Thinkpad will have to do

XMMS, Beep, Audacious or whatever were always good enough.

Where’s the best place to start?

LFS?

And yay

Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?

I’d imagine it would work fine. You can always try Mint out from the LiveUSB and see if any issues occur.

The installer’s defaults should be enough to get it done without any hassle.

It was before I had a CD writer (or DVD drive!), and it came with Linux Format magazine. I think it was the easiest and most user friendly way of getting started at the time.

Mandrake > Ubuntu > Debian > Mint > Arch > Artix

Settled on Artix for openrc and all the aur goodness

Not sure if the PineTab would be a good choice

More of a gmpc kinda person. Unless there’s a better GUI for mpd out there?

There’s always mpdas for scrobbling

It’s for recent comments

Installing onto the wrong partition. I guess that kinda broke the existing one.

Just For Fun by Linus Torvalds is a good source. Very readable.

A minimal and stable distro, kinda expected

I think the users are off-putting. Can get very blunt in the forums.