So i actually have the same laptop and had a ton of fun installing arch on it over the last christmas holidays. The experience made me understand a lot, triggered my new love for arch and was a fun project overall.
I ended up having a stable CLI setup with ytfzf and mpv to watch my favorite yt channels in glorious 720p, got bluetooth working for my headset and all. Very fun experience.
Edit: i am unsure on the 32bit part, I think mine is 64, could be another generation. In any case i also have 1gb of ram
Better plot than most movies these days