Compatible Operating Systems for Old or Discarded PCs

Year	Operating System	Specifications	Price
Pre-2000	Windows 98	Pentium 133 MHz, 32 MB RAM, 500 MB HDD	Paid
Pre-2000	Debian Linux (with lightweight DE)	Pentium 100 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1 GB HDD	Free
2000-2005	Windows XP	Pentium 233 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1.5 GB HDD	Paid
2000-2005	Lubuntu	Pentium III 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 3 GB HDD	Free
2000-2005	FreeBSD	Pentium II 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 1.5 GB HDD	Free
2005-2010	Windows 7	1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB HDD	Paid
2005-2010	Xubuntu	Pentium 4 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 5 GB HDD	Free
2005-2010	Puppy Linux	Pentium III 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 1 GB HDD	Free
2010-2015	Windows 10 (32-bit)	1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 16 GB HDD	Paid
2010-2015	Linux Mint XFCE	1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB HDD	Free
2010-2015	OpenBSD	Pentium 4 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 4 GB HDD	Free
2015-Present	Windows 11 (via mods)	Dual-core 1 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB HDD	Paid
2015-Present	Ubuntu MATE	1 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD	Free
2015-Present	Arch Linux (with lightweight DE)	1 GHz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 2 GB HDD	Free