Which distro is ideal for a personal laptop with about 12 GB

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Which distro is ideal for a personal laptop with about 12 GB of Ram?

The casing is broken and the hinges prevent it from closing smoothly.

So I'm removing the battery and use it as a stationary workstation. I don't mind taking a few runs on a VM before installing on real metal just to get my compiled programs "audited" before putting it to work.

What are my options here?

Here's my initial list, in no preference:
1. Trisquel - fast access to libre software combined with Libreboot creates a perfect Libre labbtop.

2. Arch Linux - Popular, up to date packages, rolling bleeding edge. Used to run this for a small server.

3. Gentoo - Nice server if you install only what you need. Compile flag optimizations can be nice for Music production (reducing latency on the audio channel).

4. Fedora/Ubuntu - Standard and safe, most mainstream distros and probably the friendliest to most hardware due to sheer academic and government support. Can be bloated with Amazon and NSAware (Redhat).

5. FreeBSD

6. OpenBSD

7. MacOS Mavericks