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Ubuntu is relatively heavy. Lighter distros probably do even better.
Always did on my hardware at least. When I was using Windows, my old laptop started lagging very much and it was becoming unbearable. I could not get a new one immediately. I got to know about Linux one day and installed it to try it out because there was not really anything else I could try.
I could not believe myself how buttery smooth my laptop became after that. 95% of the games that I used to play on Windows run with more performance on Linux.
I'm typing this on an 8-or-9-year-old laptop that used to be a Windows machine years ago. Exact same experience--it got too sluggish so I wiped it and installed Linux and it's been fine ever since.
I sure am eyeing that new Framework, though... :)
Yeah. Maybe even better with a distro with a more updated kernel btw.
(btw)