I have rebuild a dozen of ewaste atom laptops into smart home controller displays with 3d printer. Hardware wise it went fine. But make them working reliable is next to impossible. Lots of problems with linux gui/wifi drivers. Anything graphic and gui related is a mess. Updates just not worth it because they can kill the boot. In order to get stability you need router style firmware with Squashfs blob . With outdated kernel that at least let you have hardware accelerated output and no wifi dropouts after 2-3 days uptime, and you can reset it without fear of bricking. I can’t tell people to admin and google for linux problems daily. So these devices will die under Linux quickly anyway as kernel development direction is to make painful, by wasting time of backporting, fixing and recompiling old drivers, to use any old hardware.