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You understimate what we accomplished with 512MB of RAM in early 00's. Use a lightweight DE, or no DE at all.

I use cwm+st under Void and OpenBSD and it flies.

Yes, 512MB might still be usable with a 32-bit distro, as was used in the early 2000s.

My Athlon had 256MB and it ran Kopete and KDE3 fine.

I had 128 and was still fine, in fact I remember the first day i felt it was so fast lol

My old Sun 3/60 ran X11R4 with twm just fine in 24MB... and I had to walk up hill to school in the snow, both ways!