A t420, but yes

It’s not my main machine but it is my only laptop, and sticking an extra 8gb of ram and an ssd in it was all it needed to become very responsive even for modern software. Unless you’re playing video games or doing some heavyweight media editing projects, those older CPUs and GPUs can cope better than one might expect

It wants to be feature rich, configurable, and flexible

GNOME already has the Apple “we know better than you so it’s our way or the highway” design strategy down to an art

Be the most versatile and usable DE with the best applications

Also works on my machine (14 year old thinkpad)

Counterpoint: KDE is literally the best to ever do it and none even compare