It's a good thing I didn't get any of you to do too much work (hopefully), because I settled for something completely different. Aston Shell.
It takes up a lot less memory than windows, and though windows apps are the reason for crashing, I can handle that. Remember: I only asked about linux because windows was lagging all the time and I didn't like that.
Thanks though. I now have a 'distro' of linux I can install later (and I intend to have a linux computer later in life)