My habit of never throwing out old computers has paid off. Running open claw and iron claw on a couple of 10+ year old Macs I refurbished and loaded up with Linux mint. It’s remarkable having this technology at your fingertips.

Any benefits to using Macs as foundation for the setup or can old PCs have same potential?

How has ironclaw been working out for you?

No clue, but I’ve been seeing folks using older Macs. I’m going to buy a Mac home server

I put Linux Mint on a small laptop I bought second-hand in 2020. This was after Microsoft decided it wouldn't support Win10 anymore and wouldn't allow Win11 on any of my current Win10 machines either. Now I'd been using this laptop to mainly watch Youtube videos for about an hour a day. And I'd charge it for about an hour or two a day as well. (I use it where it's not convenient to be plugged in.) With Linux though, it was draining a lot out of the battery while not plugged in, as in much more than Win10 was. This was obviously a battery problem of course, (and buying a new one fixed it), but I was surprised Linux used more power than Win10 in 'Suspend' mode. Very happy Linux exists though!

Running Linux Mint on my 2014 laptop.

My main laptop still has Win10 on it, since I managed to get an extra year's support for it. There's some stuff I need Windows for, but I don't want to switch to W11! I tried to dual-boot the small laptop but mucked that up... :)) My first try with Linux was in the early 2000s. It eventually decided it didn't like the PC I had at the time.

Same here. RedHat was my first experience back then.