Furthermore, I’d recommend disabling the compositor. This disables animations, transparency, etc, however it speeds up the experience drastically on antiquated hardware. This is what I use (with almost no other changes) on an old netbook with 512mb of ram and a single core CPU.

I see, thank you for your response!

I believe the Revolutionary Technical Committee has some reading material, though I haven’t gotten around to it as of yet.

That fixed it! Thank you! I had forgotten that counter was persistent.