I have had (not the complete list):
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[s]ALT Linux Sisyphus MATE unstable[/s]
[s]Clonezilla[/s] (didn't work, refused to recognize one of my disks)
[s]Devuan Chimaera[/s]
EasyOS
EndeavourOS XFCE
Fatdog64 (this can't even boot with UEFI, I think now EasyOS is better)
Fedora 35 GNOME, 36 and 37 MATE, 36 XFCE
Knoppix
Manjaro KDE (external) and MATE (internal)
NeptuneOS
Porteus v5.0 MATE (main/ext4) and Cinnamon (savefile)
Salix v15 (the Live ISO is out now)
Slackware v15.0 32-bit (chiefly for Wine)
[s]Solus MATE[/s]
Spiral Linux (a short time ago raised Linux kernel to v6.0.0)
[s]Ubuntu MATE, Studio "Jammy Jellyfish"[/s]
[s]Void Linux[/s] "musl" qualified failure, "glibc" but EndeavourOS is just *so* much better!
A few others: Arch (tried once but royally messed it up, but will try again soon), Garuda (refused to boot), Gnuinos (incomplete, cannot do wifi), Mint (didn't like it and felt cheap, failed Wine test if I'm not mistaken), Mageia v8 (struggled with that "dragon-gora" program LOL and other issues), OpenSuSE (resolve to avoid this one and I won't discuss why), Siduction (please don't ask, this was a total mistake), Slackel (author was very nice helping me with this but I cannot disable touchpad tap), Solus KDE (refused to boot), Static Linux (minimalist Russian distro has good concept but I had to go online only to install gcc), Ubuntu Budgie and Unity (I thought Ubuntu with KDE or Fedora 35 was bad), Zenwalk (did "kernel panic" for different reason from my first few times trying to put Slackware instead).
In addition, I tried to install Slackware six times! On the penultimate try it was 64-bit XFCE but no "networkmanager" so no wifi, it sucked and I resented almost the same look as Void Linux. So I have something that starts very slowly on my computer because it's 32-bit and crashes sometimes but I shouldn't complain.
Finally I checked out Porteus in OpenBox mode. I was reminded of it while using Slackel. I would have put up with it if it were a bit more configurable. Cannot set the screen brightness except with terminal besides the touchpad problem. I hurried to replace it with MATE but feel bad now for it.