Everyone should read up on this, it’s quite scary…

This is just disgusting…where are you America???

By the way, you might also investigate window managers, which aren’t as full-featured as DE’s but are even lighter on resources. Back in the day before KDE and Gnome, I used Window Maker , which is based on Steve Job’s NextStep’s UI. Only works with X, not Wayland, though. https://www.windowmaker.org/

Probably lxqt. https://lxqt-project.org/ Very lightweight yet a full-on DE (minus bells and whistles). Found on most Linux distros repositories.

Back in the day after a while of playing The Sims I started organizing my free time like in the game e.g. “I’m going to take a shit now and then I’ll study a bit” etc… I stopped playing soon after, not sure if it was because of that, it was funny though.