By the way, you might also investigate window managers, which aren’t as full-featured as DE’s but are even lighter on resources. Back in the day before KDE and Gnome, I used Window Maker , which is based on Steve Job’s NextStep’s UI. Only works with X, not Wayland, though. https://www.windowmaker.org/
Probably lxqt. https://lxqt-project.org/ Very lightweight yet a full-on DE (minus bells and whistles). Found on most Linux distros repositories.
Back in the day after a while of playing The Sims I started organizing my free time like in the game e.g. “I’m going to take a shit now and then I’ll study a bit” etc… I stopped playing soon after, not sure if it was because of that, it was funny though.
Yeah, what happened to those? (Honest question)
Window maker is indeed amazing and would be a shame to loose. It was my go-to back in the day.