Well, it wasn’t the best choice on laptop that is already quite old and underpowered. I didn’t know back then, but there are lightweight Linux distros that would have served me better.
The laptop only had 4GB of RAM. I forgot about its processor, but it was decent for 2007. Even then, it was able to run, without much trouble, so long as you don’t do much. Watch the CPU and memory usage and it’s mostly ok.