I restored a Dell Optiplex GX1 (built in 1999) with Debian 12 32 bit.
I am impressed at how well it runs! It has 640 Megabytes of RAM, the Pentium II 350 MHz processor. I believe it has a Cirrus Logic CS4281 sound card. I have to log back into the machine and check! I used sox to play some ogg files and it barely touched the CPU. I would think this should be expected because it's a discrete card. I think the nice thing about having a physical machine is actually connecting to hardware like a sound card. I know you can pass through the sound card to a VM, yet I have not done that yet. :-O
I installed Java and LibreOffice dev package and hacked some automated LibreOffice stuff using the Java API. I have found getting the LibreOffice SDK a little bit challenging.
This is sort of an unfortunate development, because I will probably keep this server around for a while.
I tend to accumulate "stuff" and my resolution for 2023 has been to clear out some of the accumulation.
Well, maybe I will sell it or probably turn it into the recycling yard soon.
Brian