I spent a long weekend more or less doing the same thing over and over and over. I had to reinstall several times, and it’s not the fault of any distribution. Rather it’s on me as either couldn’t decide on which distribution to use or what size to give it. Thankfully Vista does let you “shrink” partitions on the fly (more or less), so I was able to go from my initial partition size of 20 gigs to something around 45Gb.
The real problem is still getting the Sierra 881u up and running. Vista, as [insert adjective here] as it is, would be gone in a minute if I could that going. Sigh. I fear it may be long week.
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…