Any OS recommendations for my old HP Pavilion g6?
Something a bit less known, along the line of elementaryOS (but stable) or Deepin (but not Chinese spyware).

@fuck2code I'd love Arch, but so far I have 6 failed installs cause I'm not that proficient with linux.

Debian + xfce will be perfect!

Guess I'll go back to Debian. Don't even remember why I left it

@while give Antergos a try, much more stable than Arch, but still has all the advantages of Arch systems, else there's lubuntu and xubuntu

@JoshBent is it? Last time I tried, it used to crash frequently. (Genuinely asking)

@darkLord I have used it on my laptop for a long time and it crashed only once and that was my fault, I can go without updating a month and then updating all with sometimes looking at their announcements and that's it, in Arch I was subscribed to endless lists, because ANY update could annihilate your entire system

@JoshBent That sounds nice.
And yes I agree about Arch. So I switched to Manjaro and never regretted the decision.

@JoshBent that's perfect man, exactly what I was looking for. Sleek, stable and not very well knows OS.
Will give it a shot

Lubuntu if u want the Debian flavour,
Else
Zorion has the windows like GUI

@AlpineLinnix
Do you believe I did every time, but somehow I always end up fucking something up cause I have very basic understanding of those commands

Arch linux's official installation guide is sufficient but yes if you don't know what those commands do then it might be a little bit confusing.

@AlpineLinnix yup, that part is usually fine.
Last time i gave up cause I couldn't install audio packages

TrashOS?

@mk3d wat? XD
Can't find anything on this :(
Kinda hoped it was real

I have that laptop, it was my first. Ahh, good memories.
I would use Ubuntu Mate, I tried it the other day and the options it gives for desktop layout were awesome.

Microsoft Excel

If it's a AMD g6, then sadly windows is the best bet. Linux overheats the laptop.

@gsharm5u god damn, why's that? My laptop does overheat like hell amd gpu tho, intel cpu

@while a. Poor design by HP
B. The GPU switch between iGpu and dGpu sadly rarely works and dGpu remains active. So drains battery and overheats.

I have one as well.

@gsharm5u what would you recommend 7, 8 , 10?

@while 10 , because of Linux subsystem

Also dual boot it. If windows kicks the bucket.

Thank you all for helping. After a whole day of distro hopping, to my surprise, Mint turned out to be the best combination of performance and aesthetics.