You all seemed to have fleshed this thread out very well, but I just want to say that Deepin Linux is a fantastic linux distro. While I'm not sure how resource intensive it is, it is by far the best looking and most convenient Linux distro I've used.

And by the way, all our computers are getting pretty old and on the low end (the least powerful having just 2GB of RAM , it runs Windows 10 just fine though)