thinking of going to linux
what lightweight distros are there

@Louma

the only limit i have right now is ~20gb of hdd and 4GB of ram

but mainly not bloated

If you're just starting and you need a lightweight dekstop, I recommend to you Xubuntu. Although, a distro is as lightweight as the software installed on it. I'm talking mainly about the user interface or the desktop environment. Some desktop environments are light (such as xfce) and some are heavy.

Go for arch maybe or Mnjaro !? Or maybe OpenSUSE idk, all those distros are lightweight if you don't have to run it with a DE or maybe with XFCE@Louma

Like KDE i hate that DE @rantsauce

Ooh I remember that Kubuntu was ~4 gigs so beware

Maybe GNOME haha with only 4 gigs of ram

I like bunsenlabs or if you want an arch based os, I would recommend archlabs