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The most lightweight that I try recently was antix, but my daughter couldn't get the feeling. So we went with MXlinux and was really good. She plays Harry Potter 1 on wine and is really happy!
Haswell processors (~2013) already had partial Vulkan support and everything. A guide might help with debugging eventual problems (i.e., try to run Proton games with PROTON_USE_WINED3D = 1 if it doesn't work at first) but that is not even mentioned.
Except for Vulkan support, anything in the Core i3/i5/i7 series should be pretty much the same as modern Linux provided you have enough RAM (with 4GB or less definitely look into Lubuntu or lighter). It gets difficult only when you move further back - when you might not have a 64 bit CPU, or have <1GB of RAM or, trouble with OpenGL 3.6 support, or dedicated graphics might not even support 720p video properly, etc.
Nice!