Stan … when I was doing this “KatM” mentioned Debian 32bit … 
“I went with the Debian 11 32 bit because its supposed to be supported until at least July 2024. It was also pretty easy to find and install the missing firmware, it was for the wifi driver. Just had to edit my repository config to add non-free and installed the missing firmware. Its a little on the slow side compared to my other computers, but it works. If you have too many issues with the Mint install, try the Debian, when you have time of course.” (end of KatM quote) I was going to try the Mint LMDE 5 … and was able to install it at the time … however with the IBM I ran into the Wifi problems for the first time and didn’t follow up with the install … thought it was RAM related so finally installed Q4OS … had the same Wifi problems but, realized that to update/upgrade I needed to make a direct Hard-Wired Network connection and the Wifi worked perfectly there after … Wanted to go back and retry LMDE but summer set in and I ran out of “me-time” … wound up giving the IBM to a friend who was interested for it’s use on his job that required transferring software updates to industrial machines … haven’t messed with 32bit since … good luck and hang in there …