boredsquirrel<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nixCraft</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://tux.social/tags/NixOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NixOS</span></a> is interesting. Pretty reliable (not as much as <a href="https://tux.social/tags/AtomicDesktops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicDesktops</span></a> in my noob tests) while also performant</p><p>Note that such old hardware will have <a href="https://tux.social/tags/microcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microcode</span></a> vulnerabilities and locking it down will further slow it down. At least thinking of <a href="https://tux.social/tags/spectre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spectre</span></a> or <a href="https://tux.social/tags/meltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>meltdown</span></a> (not sure if hyperthreading was even thought of back then)</p>