Same here- my R61i (2008, C2D) was perfectly usable (if not blazing) on Debian 10 with Mate. I upgraded to a W500 (2009, also C2D) earlier this year and except

Same here- my R61i (2008, C2D) was perfectly usable (if not blazing) on Debian 10 with Mate. I upgraded to a W500 (2009, also C2D) earlier this year and except for gaming, it's fine. I probably wouldn't run Gnome Shell on them, but all but the heaviest DEs seem to run acceptably (and much better than Windows 10) on decade-old hardware.