I have a very cool Core 2 Duo laptop here that runs Linux Mint.
And it is pretty aweful. Would love to put Fedora Kinoite (Atomic KDE) on there, manual upgrades on shutdown, minimal set of apps.
But I dont know how well Plasma works on such old hardware. It is pretty bloated and messy sometimes, Dolphin and plasmashell are my biggest worries (the whole panel and widget stuff is sooo complex).
Has anyone tried Plasma?
An alternative would be LXQt with KWin once 6.1 comes out and it has full Wayland support.
@boredsquirrel
I have had it run great on my Framework 13 11th Gen.
Okay that doesnt matter XD
optimization for new Hardware is also important but very different from low spec compatibility.
11th Gen Intel is x86_64-v4
And you know what discussion came up when Ubuntu wanted to switch to v3 (my 2012 Thinkpad has v3)?
11th gen is just a few years old. Very different to trying to run something on a Core 2 Duo which is probably close to 20 years old.