That's what bunsenlabs is for.
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I got archcraft.
Lucky me. It's also from India which is fun.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=archcraft
It just comes on cheap prebuilts or laptops. It sucks.
No one mentioned Bunsenlabs or Crunchbang Linux here, but they aren't really that obscure.
Unironically, Chrome OS Flex might be the way to go. Dead simple, uses A/B updates and is just that, for people who just need something to work.
I use Bunsenlabs and like it a lot
The atom cpu in this has a powervr sgx545 gpu which is barely supported by anything. Ubuntu 12.04 has some support but it's only 2d acceleration.
But the last release for it will be in December.
There is the fork mentioned in the forum post here.
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002
https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android
I don't use Syncthing and don't have an Android phone so I can't really speak for it in terms of functionality.
Id make it 2 or 3 gb. That being said, 1 gb is fine for such a light install. I have a similarly specced pentium M machine running modern debian with OpenBox. For heavier tasks, it was hitting swap (using a web browser). Upping it to 2 gb ram fixed that.
Edit: this also came with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 gpu which probably has a bit more support than the PowerVR gpu in the Atom.
There's quite a few. I have bunsenlabs helium installed on a 32 bit pentium M laptop. It's very usable, for a 20 yo single core machine. For basic things, it's still fine. I do have some gpu acceleration though which is a benefit.
I think its a bit easier to use than kdenlive. I'd say it's a little bit less full featured than kdenlive