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Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.
Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)
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Well it is a $20 computer. I can imagine it serving as someone's introduction to Linux because "why not, it's cheap enough for an experiment".
Or not inflicting windows 11 on grandma.
You can make it work with group policy. I do whatever grandma wants.
Also bold of you to assume grandma is tech illiterate. I've met some "grandma age" people who are absolute wizards with tech.
Yeah the grandma I had in mind was the one that only uses her computer for bejeweled and to email you racist memes from Facebook.
If it's a grandma it's going to have to have enough RAM to hold the 984 Chrome tab she assists on having open at any one time. It's going to need at least a terabyte of RAM.
You can get better hardware for free
Go to some companies in your area and ask for some old hardware. They probably have a bunch of 6/7/8th machines. They probably all have 8gb of ram and you can buy cheap sata SSDs that will vastly outperform a old beat up hard drive.