Linux version for elderly slow laptop

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 15:42:55 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 06:18:13 -0600
> Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:
> > perception can make a difference
> 	
> Unlikely that it's perceptible that a 2.16 GHz machine with 4 GiB is
> slower, when using KDE for averaged desktop usage (office, browsing,
> mailing, moving windows etc.), than doing this on a more modern
> machine, assumed there shouldn't be something fishy.

Resp., I notice that GTK3 applications became a PITA (on every WM/DE
what ever distro is used), it gets more evil with each GTK3 upgrade on
my machine with similar specifications. Qt apps, GTK2 apps and anything
else (excepted of GTK3 crap) is as quick as lightning.