This one feels faster than the previous one I posted, probably thanks to the fact it has an SSD (!!!).
LXQt does miracles with old hardware. I’m just waiting for the LXQt experimental Wayland support to come to Debian. Knowing Debian, that might be a few years.
Next I’ll try KDE on it

That swap is egregious.
Yeah it’s an old swap partition that I never touched on the drive when repartitioning. No idea what I was thinking when I created it! To be fair I must have been 15 years old at the tine.