Yeah, I think they can be a combination of processor, GPU, memory architecture, and G(UI) software. But I too have ran a super snappy XFCE desktop for ages on

Yeah, I think they can be a combination of processor, GPU, memory architecture, and G(UI) software. But I too have ran a super snappy XFCE desktop for ages on pretty old hardware. I only recently switched to KDE+Wayland on much newer hardware and felt like it was snappy enough to not bother me. I also remember there were times were my much more powerful dedicated GPU was outperformed by my CPU integrated GPU, which I think has something to do how shared memory can be faster for UI rendering (or maybe it was just driver-related)