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My boss gifted me an old thinkpad x31
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ofc I imediatly upgraded it from winxp to gnu/linux
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don't know about distro but I can see KDE logo there.
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.