perhaps i have not introduced this part of the net to PonderSlab; this is a Thinkpad T61 from around 2006. it's got a Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, a 250 GB SSD that I added myself, and it's currently running FreeBSD 15.1 because I got bored.
It's more usable than I expected it to be in this setup; there's some things I have not figured out yet, but it seems comfortable with LXQt.
@wildweasel wait are you trying to compile UZDoom on a BSD? 
@techokami I was! it got surprisingly far into the process after disabling Vulkan support but it stopped on some issue that I couldn't figure out https://github.com/UZDoom/UZDoom/issues/2000
but I'll have to see if the suggestion in this issue ticket does anything
i wish this resulted in a working binary, but there is apparently a 20 year old known issue that prevents this from compiling under FreeBSD