Facts: #1 Linux support for old hardware in general is incredibly good, better then any other modern OS AFAIK. #2 Running a 15 year old Laptop makes zero sens

Facts: #1 Linux support for old hardware in general is incredibly good, better then any other modern OS AFAIK. #2 Running a 15 year old Laptop makes zero sense, you can not be that poor. I use gaming rigs as my PCs for everything and I one of mine was 8 years old at some point and I still sold it for 250€ and bought a new one. There are budget laptops that run faster, eat less power bill that any 15 year old device. Of the specifics of your device do not play will with distros its just another good reason on the top of the list why an upgrade is past time. Demanding devs to maintain stuff for 15 year old hardware makes no sense, if something is there and still works and can be "maintained" with little effort while keeping it in place its another story. But again generally speaking I think Linux, the kernel has incredibly good support for an insane amount of obscure and ancient hardware out there.