Congrats Rich!
I have been running some sort of Debian Linux distro since 2008, mostly Mint and Kubuntu as I like the kde interface. The oldest machine I played with was a Pentium 166 machine with 8MB, yes ...megabytes. It ran Damn Small Linux and would barely browse the graphic heavy internet but I used it to play mp3s, as a terminal client for and Arduino, and a word processor. Now I have a Raspberry Pi with more power than that thing had, for $35!
99% of the time I use my Linux machine, which is an 8 year old laptop that I paid $150 for about 5 years ago, to browse the web and play music. I use google suite for word processing, spreadsheets, etc. so I don't have to install anything. It did require a memory upgrade for $20 a short time ago when the latest kubuntu release got a bit bigger.