> I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE desktop
Try Alpine Linux, with Xfce which can do most of the same things. Then enable swap compression -- add this to the end of the kernel line in your bootloader:
zswap.enabled=1
This compresses everything going to swap, and decompresses it coming back: less disk reads and writes, and less space used.
Try Alpine Linux, with Xfce which can do most of the same things. Then enable swap compression -- add this to the end of the kernel line in your bootloader:
zswap.enabled=1
This compresses everything going to swap, and decompresses it coming back: less disk reads and writes, and less space used.
Everything gets quicker.