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Best distro for a ~26 year old Pentium 3 laptop?

Found an old IBM Thinkpad A20M I'm trying to nurture back to working. I've identified RAM to be the reason it isn't booting, and have ordered 2x 64mb of RAM for it. Whilst Windows 2000 is certainly a fun gimmick, I'd like for it to run a modern browser and some modern applications atleast if I manage to get it working again.

To reiterate, I'd be working with 128mb of RAM. I am not very tech savvy, so something like Arch is unfortunately not an option. Something that recognizes hardware out of the box would be ideal.

I am considering AntiX or TinyCore, but anything lightweight that is user-friendly or has a decent bit of documentation (such as something Debian or Ubuntu based) would be great.

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