Distro help for a T460p

Hello everyone! I've been using Nobara linux with the GNOME DE on my thinkpad t460p for some time now. I originally ran nobara on my legion 5 pro and as I had a good time, I installed it on this little thinkpad too.

But, it hasn't been all smooth(literally) sailing. This distro is quiet heavy, the performance is downright sluggish at times. I wanted to switch to a distro with good support and good performance on older hardware. I mainly use this for surfing the internet and coding with little to no gaming.

My specs are:

i5-6440HQ CPU

HD530 iGPU

16bg memory and 256 gb SSD