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  • The standby power of a desktop is not that massive. Especially when you don’t run a GPU or display. That windows 8 machine you have is probably fine as-is.

    An ATX PSU doesn’t suck down 500 watts at all times, just because the sticker on it says it can. How much power your machine will use will depend much more on the CPU.

    So just slap linux on it and have at it. If nothing else, you’ll get familiar with the software involved, and be better prepared if you end up wanting to buy new hardware for this.

    There’s not really any lock-in with linux. Almost any piece of software you might run can be run on almost any distro you might consider using.