I am sure this question has been asked many times but there might be something new I haven't heard of. I am still on windows 7 and as time goes on, many programs are not supporting it anymore. I am looking for a lightweight distro for my old computer with 4GB that is reliable and stable but with updateable programs if it's possible. I asked Duck.ai and I got a couple of ones, like Debian XFCE which I think the most reliable since it's a well-known distro with solid foundation and I'm familiar with it, MX-Linux - I don't know about that. I haven't used any Linux distro for a long time so I am really outdated. For example, XFCE isn't really a lightweight desktop environment so i heard like it used to Just a few days ago i installed Win10 LTSC and it was awfully slow and kept failing while applying updates, downloading over and over again, not to mention it looks like s**t with that setting app that kept crushing for no reason even though the whole OS was using only 2.5 gb of ram with firefox opened too. I wonder how people tolerated it. Now, i am back on 7. I also want a distro that reads and writes on NTFS without corrupting any data on it. I'm not a heavy user so I just do basic tasks and play some old games. I also bought refurbished rams a few days ago, but none of them worked except one which was faulty so i returned them. The motherboard I have is too old. I don't know how long this computer will continue to work but i don't think it has many days left.
I believe Lubuntu should be just fine (it's just a bit more resource hungry than the rest of similar offers) and it's updated and so forth.
There are a number of distros that are designed to be used on older, low powered pc's. Distrowatch has a search tool that will show many of them. My experience is that most of them just do not appeal to me for one reason or another. Two that I have used and enjoyed are LXLE and Q4OS. You did not mention which CPU you are using, but 4 GB of RAM is plenty for most common uses. I suggest that you download some live versions and run them from USB for a preview and then install the one you like best.
I have Intel Core2Duo E7500. Yeah, I am going to test later several distros and see which one works the best. Though yesterday I was doing a couple of research and found out many distros don't support legacy Nvidia drivers anymore out of the box, so this is going to be a problem unless the open source driver has become powerful enough to be like the one made by Nvidia.
Thanks everyone. For now, I am going to stick with Windows 7 for a while and then I'm going to try 10 LTSC again, but this time I'll try to use it with Windows Update Minitool, which I remember using it some time ago when 7 updater was a bit buggy, used to hang and took a lot of cpu power, along with Open-Shell. Maybe I'll disable Windows Defender too since that takes a lot of ram and only use and scan with third-party antivirus once a week or month rather than real time scanning. If it doesn't work, I'll check both MX Linux or antiX and see whether they support Nvidia legacy drivers or not.