Any tips on getting stuff to run fine on low end machines. I'm currently running Lubuntu on a very cheap laptop and while its usable, most applications are get

Any tips on getting stuff to run fine on low end machines. I'm currently running Lubuntu on a very cheap laptop and while its usable, most applications are get pretty irresponsive. I've also tried running some BSD's on it whith very bare bones wm's (i.e. ctwm) and that became unusable quickly. Although, I think the issue there was lack of proper graphics drivers and being stuck with the framebuffer driver.