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I still see computers in Windows 7. The only people throwing computers out would be large corpos. And the ones in question are already on their way out as they're 5+ years old at this point. (1st Gen ryzen & pre-9th Gen Intel core i)
those sound modern and desirable to me.
maybe we can get those on the cheap and install linux on them?
Look for surplus sales, many large orgs (esp. universities) have them periodically throughout the year. I got a PC for $50 years ago, and it worked, it just wasn't modern.
I recommend at least upgrading the PSU though, since the ones that have tend to suck, and consider getting a new case as well since a standard PSU may not fit and they're certainly not big enough to hold a GPU.
I recently got a $100 PC that's now an Ubuntu server running your typical qBittorrent/Xarr/Plex/VPN stack, a local web server (for accessing said services), and nginxproxymanager all across docker containers. It's not powerful by modern standards (i5-7600), but for what I use it for it's way overkill. It's currently sitting at 5% memory utilization of the 8GB of RAM it has despite running all that with many active torrents.
Nice! I still have my PC from 2009-ish (Phenom II X4) running my NAS and serving DLNA (for my smart TV), and I'm planning to downsize a bit to save on power (looking at ARM boards like RockPro64).
Older machines make for great servers.