I have been down a similar path. I have an old HP laptop that used to run Windows XP. Its about 2005 model and has 1G of RAM. LXDE is only desktop that will giv

I have been down a similar path. I have an old HP laptop that used to run Windows XP. Its about 2005 model and has 1G of RAM. LXDE is only desktop that will give reasonable performance. Despite claims at being light I found Xfce based desktops slowed computer to a crawl. The second thing I found was that all modern browsers literally consumed all resources on the computer making laptop unusable. I tried Netsurf which was fine on sites on which it worked. In the end I have found is best to use text based browsers. I use links2.