Parrot Linux OS
I replaced the broken Kali OS on my other laptop with Parrot. Unlike the last install, I was treated with a desktop environment via my USB stick. The install went well and I'm happy :)
One thing I remember was that my older laptop's BIOS could not detect my boot USB after formatting it with the OS image, no matter what methods I use. Perhaps that BIOS was just too old to recognize many different boot devices.