Aren’t ThinkPads dual channel ram anymore?

Would this affect the lifecycle of Alma and Rocky? CentOS Stream had support for 5 years only, whereas RHEL comes with a 10 year support policy.

Exactly. At this point I think it’s practically impossible to change the license

In the comment section one Red hatter says the differences will be minimal for Alma and Rocky, though some embargoed fix might be out. Seems mostly ok (I’d say for most use cases even CentOS Stream is ok)

This.

The problem is not Flatpak itself. The problem is that Gnome by default makes non-Libadwaita apps have bold titles. The way to go is use the Gnome Tweaks tool to disable the bold text for legacy apps.

Will Fedora ever support Stratis on install like RHEL does?

For the 64 bit, Fedora LxQt works very nicely on a 2GB Ram PC. I’d suggest you avoid Lubuntu as the snaps are not very lightweight as you begin installing more and more. Debian LxQt would work as well, but it wouldn’t provide any advantages over Fedora and its packages would be less up to date.

For the 32-bit one, use Debian i686.

Another option, of course, is to pick Arch and Arch32 and build a functional system from there, but there are little guarantees that the 32-bit one will work, given patches have to be done to software in order for it to compile to i686 PCs.