This is so close to my experience it's eerie, down to the X-series thinkpad and KDE. I downright dread each major OS upgrade and the KDE that comes with it - th

This is so close to my experience it's eerie, down to the X-series thinkpad and KDE. I downright dread each major OS upgrade and the KDE that comes with it - they only ever get slower and more unreliable. I will almost certainly make the jump for the next debian release. I don't know if goes without saying, but the single thing that makes "old" hardware bearable these days is an ssd. Without that the pain can be unbearable.