Re: 32GB HP Monstruosities
You can't get any modern OS to run on 128MB of memory and 2GB of hard drive space. Not even a modern CLI-only Linux will exist happily in that*. Yes, things have bloated, and Windows is one of those things, but everything has gotten bigger and uses more resources. Therefore, the 32GB/2GB spec is not sufficient for the use case of a workstation.
*CLI-only Linux on 128MB ram and 2GB disk: You can run embedded Linux images on this, but that's not the same. You can probably shove a trimmed-down image into those specs, but it will run terribly. Your issue will most likely be memory. Disk space is less of a concern because CLI packages are so small, but it probably wouldn't be that long before that was an issue too.
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