Better graphics on recent linux for x61t

[thinkpadrobert]

A few years ago I thought I might use my old x61t as a kodi machine, then along came kodi 19 with its fancy new graphics system and everything lagged, didn't matter whether I was on windows or linux. Now I have discovered more recent linuxes have greatly improved performance, equivalent to how it felt back on kodi 17. I tried kodi 21 on ubuntu 24.04 and libreelec. I don't think it's just kodi 21, since even google maps street view running on chrome is fluid, to the point where it's feeling like a usable machine again. I've installed waydroid on ubuntu and it's working pretty well too.

Has anyone else found this?

[axur-delmeria]

I'll have to dig up my X61 and test it (maybe in the coming days). But I remember it running well under Debian 10, but the graphics performance took a dive with Debian 11 and 12. I suspected it was due to Mesa, but have no solid evidence for that.