Just opening a browser takes a long time in a 10 year old machine compared to a new one. Even simple things are terribly slow in comparison. They run, but they do take forever.
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Nah, I wouldn't stand using it myself. The friend that tried to installed gave up immediately and went straight back to windows 11. We need to stop lying to ourselves that Linux is somehow able to do magic with old stuff. It can't. And then myth that it does blocks more people from using it.
What machines are you using? My 10 year old i7 with 16gb of ram thinkpad still opens chromium on arch in milliseconds and the browsing experience is not that different from my 24 core m4 pro MacBook for the typical web stuff.
My 5 year old i5 8gb ram thinkpad on the other hand is painfully slow.
This case was a 8gb i7 vs a 9950x3D with a 4090 and 64gb of ddr5 ram. It's not even close.
Also an apple laptop, but I don't have the details of that one.
An outdated Phenom II x6 with an SSD still works with actual browsers, and it works even better if you install Mullvad or Librefox.