There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286. Here in the 2020s, though, that divide is less stark. While a machine from the mid-2000s may no longer be considered quick, it can still run modern and useful software.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/05/jennys-daily-drivers-damn-small-linux-2024/