Small History.
1 year ago I wanted to replace Windows 7 with some Linux on my parents' old laptop (they don't use it anymore), but failed. I tried Linux Mint, Debian KDE, Manjaro i3, etc., but only Arch Linux and TUI Debian (and custom Windows 11 installer btw) were able to boot.
In September I started using FreeBSD as main OS on my machine, so I decided to try it also on an old laptop yesterday. Except missing kitty terminal in packages, it works really well: no WIFI issues, no video drivers issues, for an old HDD it boots in 1min 30sec for xfce and 1 min for i3wm (for comparason, it takes 1 min to boot light custom Windows 7), I even can dual boot with Windows 7 on MBR disk and finally it can be l up-to-date working machine (in some extent).
P.S. cute community avatar btw. It's hard to find anime+BSD pics.
Ive used OpenBSD on my ThinkPad 380XD. It's slow, but usable in tty mode (original hard drive).