When people say that, they’re probably repeating what they heard and miscommunicating it. It means it can be made to run on a toaster or a super computer. -Not something a normie cares about.
If they’re running KDE Plasma, ask them how to change the task bar size.
Right-click on panel/taskbar → Show Panel Configuration:
Wow that’s super complicated, no normie could ever figure out such complications, guess its back to windows for me.