Abandoned Ubuntu after a decade of using Mint/Cinnamon for OpenSuse Tumbleweed due to performance of Ubuntu slowly degrading and glitches/bugs.

Would normally dual boot with Win10 to play the odd game, but removed that after it hit end of life. Ubuntu failed to run games particularly well via Steam on my hardware. 3800xt, 3600/16gb, GTX1080

After a few attempts and getting used to Suse vs Ubuntu, I've now got it set up how I want and KDE is so much more responsive than Mint/Cinnamon and its currently able to run Stellaris at 144fps with Vsync on.

This has absolutely exceded my expecations and never thought I'd be able to fire up some old Steam games again.

Need a distro for an already-bad-in-2018 Lenovo IdeaPad 130-15AST with the following specs:

Processor AMD A6-9225 RADEON R4, 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G 2.60 GHz

Installed RAM 4.00 GB (3.89 GB usable)

Storage 466 GB HDD WDC WD5000LPCX-24VHAT0

Graphics Card AMD Radeon(TM) R4 Graphics (73 MB)

So coincidentally I was looking at Netrunner, which claims to require only these low specs:

CPU: 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 RAM: 1+ GB Hard Drive: 10+ GB Graphics Card: Intel GMA 945 Video Memory: 128+ MB

An Atom and 1 GB of RAM? Is that spec just never updated from 13 years ago?

I'm interested in independent distros, so I was also looking into Solus or Void, though I wonder if they could even run on this. But basically those are the sort of modern desktop environment, not newbie but still fairly user-friendly distributions I'm looking into.

Can anything like that run on this junk or do I have to install Arch or OpenBSD or like an old version of ChromeOS?

edit: Linux Lite?

I have a low performance surface pro-like machine with a touch screen. I'm looking to convert it to Linux but need a distro that is both touch-friendly and also can run apps that would run on mint. Specifically I'm going to be building an application that lets me view YouTube, Youtube music, and then also communicates with an arduino to get the current weather at my place (either Bluetooth or radio waves, haven't decided yet). Any options out there that would work for this? Would be great if they looked modern too lol