makes sense

I like him, but what does he have to do with any of this?

Is it the Complete Looney Tunes Golden Collection [DVDrip]?

My favorite distros are Gentoo and Debian.

I can say with confidence that Linux Mint is what you’re looking for.

The machine is so old that all distros play nice with it.

Lmao, I’m using X230 as my on-the-go laptop unironically. Also FYI, older machine might not work as well. RHEL based distros have started to remove the support for Sandy & Ivy in their next releases.

To answer your question, Linux doesn’t care which drive you put your /home. Hell, you can even mount /var or /usr on a different drive. It only care that you list it on fstab (or mount it manually, go to town!). It would just treat them like any other filesystem.

I’ve never heard of that 2.5 SSD being problematic for boot drive before.

How about FreeBSD? Or a more desktop friendly counterpart of GhostBSD?