If you want solid reliability, Debian is where you might want to start. Particularly on an older PC where the hardware should be well supported. Make a live install image USB boot drive and see if you like it before you decide.

Debian is all about stability, at the cost of having less recent software. For newer versions of the desktop environments you could try live boots of KDE Neon and Pop!_OS as well.

Interesting!

it wasn’t for dumb people who didn’t know any better

I mean, it kind of was though, wasn’t it?

Just because more knowledgeable people found it interesting and got it for the novelty or to see how it worked doesn’t mean it wasn’t a product intended for people who, Kodak hoped, wouldn’t know any better. That doesn’t mean I’m saying your father didn’t know better.

Hopefully he’s still around and you can ask him about the relative image quality between those formats. If he was interested in quality, he wasn’t going to grab the disc camera. It wasn’t like Betamax where it was superior but lost a battle in the marketplace. Disc film was objectively much worse than even 110 while being much more expensive to buy and process.