Installed Linux Lite 8 on kids' laptop

My kids were using Zorin OS 17 on their very old Pentium laptop with 4GB of memory. I understand that it is already an older version of Zorin. But it had started to feel very sluggish. Kids use it mainly for browsing, but opening the browser itself takes really long. But that is after they already wait - what feels like a long time - to see the login prompt 1 after powering up the machine. So today being Sunday I decided I will install Linux Lite on this machine The latest version Linux Lite 8 is based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. At first I backed up what little data they had. Then I booted into a live ISO version just to check out how it feels. I understand that live version is probably slower because it is running from the USB drive. But it felt OK. Not Great, okay. I decided to gamble. It can’t be slower than Zorin. Right? It will be as slow as the existing one. So there is only upside. Let us go. Installation was pretty much standard. Nothing to write about. I selected the existing…