Are we lightweight? Let's ask the Internet.

[TheDead]

Choices my friends ...  choices!! That's one, amongst the many other beauties the Linux/Unix world offers us, you can take it or leave it, but you can't deny it, and that's why having an OS for veryONE isn't a bad thing, in fact, I think it's wondeful.

It is, my point was that for a newbie those hundred of distributions can be quite overwhelming.
Add to this that a lot of them are (really) not professional looking at all, unlike Linux Lite of course . This can be quite offputting to get into Linux.
If you try and ask on Reddit, "Which Linux Distro should be my first?", you will be swampped with different opinions.

Stumble upon a nice article while writing this post when searching DuckDuckGo with "My First Distro" and Linux Lite is on there, yay!https://www.lifewire.com/choose-best-lin...ds-2201172
A cool thing they put in there is "Level Of Expertise Required" for each distributions, I agree with most of their ratings too (maybe not Puppy that I would put a "Medium" on, always found it a little weird specially for a newbie. LoLz.