Debian Is The Best for Slow WiFi
I have a very old eMachine desktop whose WiFi is extremely slow. I've tried putting Zorin OS, Linux Mint, and Fedora on it. It always had the same problem. After install, there'd be a ton of updates and it would usually time out.
With Debian, however, being stable already means fewer updates since all of the kinks have already been worked out. So far, I think the only thing I've seen getting updated was the browser, which is in its own repo. I absolutely love it. So, thank you lovely maintainers. You're the best. I'm guessing you only really need to do security updates.
I got the idea to put GNOME Flashback on it from Andrea Borman on YouTube. She's a lovely old lady whose into Linux. Flashback is the old GNOME 2 style desktop but it sits on top of modern GNOME minus the shell. It makes it somewhat lightweight. I love the app menu and places which will open up right where you want to go. There's no search in the app menu but there's an applet for searching apps when you don't feel like fumbling around the menu. I don't use it though. Instead, I installed Synapse, which searches both apps and files. I got rid of the bottom panel because there's enough room for the a task manager on the top menu. Gnome 2 was designed when we had squarish monitors, not the wide screens we have today.