The graphics are just too inadequate these days, being equivalent to a desktop 210 or something like that. It's barely enough for web browsing and video playback tasks. It runs... Call of Duty 4 on medium settings? Kinda? That's about it...
By breathing with ease again - i didn't mean - it will act as if upgrading the hardware (to modern standards). More like - the same it did back in 2010 (same way it ran back then - be it browsing, video playback or the games from that time), and that - while using a secure an updated OS (even modern - looks wise). Which is not something that can be said about Windows 10 - which is simply to much of a hassle - for hardware released 5 years earlier.
The thing is - that was actually the main issue with Windows Vista. It's not as if Windows Vista - was the most horrible Windows OS - yet was hated as one. And that's because the majority from that time had Windows '98/2K and Windows XP Hardware.... for which Windows Vista proved to be a hassle. Yet latter, while upgrading their hardware (not to mention the hardware evolved - became more capable - starting with Intel Core 2 CPUs) - they got the opposite impression about Windows 7 (the best Windows Ever) - which obviously - was more of a right software for the right hardware type of thing.
The thing about Windows.... Microsoft does not recycle (doesn't care about older hardware and older systems), but keeps moving forward - while pushing even older (not old) - yet still capable hardware behind. As it happened with Windows 11 - where even 7th Gen CPUs were not officially supported anymore (despite of being still capable of running Windows 11). Windows 12 is suppose to have native support for A.I. - so once again older CPUs will lag behind.
Linux on the other hand... is for everyone. Yet, many Linux distributions do recycle (what Microsoft and Apple - left behind) - do take into account old and older hardware (within common sense) - while testing it out. It's actually - the latest hardware - where it usually lags behind. Tho, it's doing better this days - now that both nVidia and AMD - started embracing the Open Source world... instead of taking the Windows/OSX exclusive aproach - like it happened in the past (support wise).