There are lots of people in the comments here who appear to not get it. This isn't about replacing a contemporary computer with something old. It's about the usability of a decent OS on very modest hardware.
One of the systems on which I run NetBSD is a 33 MHz m68030 Mac LC III+ (http://elsie.zia.io - it's hosting a site about an LC II, which I'm still working on). It's quite useful to see how assumptions people make about "acceptable" performance regressions bear out in the real world. Sure, not much can be done about taking six or seven minutes to ssh, but when bad coding causes a shell script to take twice as long, it's much more obvious on hardware like this than on a modern Ryzen system.
Nobody is telling others to forego your modern computer and your Windows needs. It's just interesting to some of us that we can still run modern things on very modest and, in some cases, very non-mainstream hardware in 2023.
One of the systems on which I run NetBSD is a 33 MHz m68030 Mac LC III+ (http://elsie.zia.io - it's hosting a site about an LC II, which I'm still working on). It's quite useful to see how assumptions people make about "acceptable" performance regressions bear out in the real world. Sure, not much can be done about taking six or seven minutes to ssh, but when bad coding causes a shell script to take twice as long, it's much more obvious on hardware like this than on a modern Ryzen system.
Nobody is telling others to forego your modern computer and your Windows needs. It's just interesting to some of us that we can still run modern things on very modest and, in some cases, very non-mainstream hardware in 2023.