the last time i used a minimalist distro on an old thinkpad; x windows was so heavy that it noticeably slowed everything down. not so much that it wasn’t still useful, but that was only true if i didn’t use kde or gnome or watch netflix on chrome; it sounds like that hasn’t changed much in 20 years.
no, that’s in fact lxqt, kde is too heavy for this old machine
the last time i used a minimalist distro on an old thinkpad; x windows was so heavy that it noticeably slowed everything down. not so much that it wasn’t still useful, but that was only true if i didn’t use kde or gnome or watch netflix on chrome; it sounds like that hasn’t changed much in 20 years.