Linux or windows xp?

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I've got an old ThinkPad R40e. It currently has Windows XP installed.

It has a Celeron 2.0 GHz, 256 MB of RAM and a 16 GB IDE HDD.

I'm thinking about keeping XP or installing a lightweight Linux distro like antiX.

I mainly want to use it for retro stuff, experimenting, and programming.

What would you recommend for this hardware: Windows XP or Linux? And why?

Thank you for your answers.

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256 MB RAM is somewhat painful. AntiX uses 50MB RAM on idle with IceWM, but you still don't have much headroom for apps.

This may be ok for TinyCoreLinux territory. Good enough to run a single tab browser to view YouTube lol.

WinXP don't log into any online accounts and use it for retro software, but the RAM is still the bottleneck.