I can do almost my daily task activities with a $60 SBC 32BIT with only 2GB of RAM.
I can read and send emails, browse internet, have fun on the Fediverse and create and edits light documents with GUI apps such as #Abiwords. I was also able to work with #Gimp and #Inkscape without hassle.
As a matter of fact the real Achilles' heel is the #WWW ecosystem, while the other bargains are in order: the Desktop Environment and the OS.
I am currently using Armbian which is fine but NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD are by default lesser resources angry than any Linuxes.
For the Desktop Environment,despite the bullying of #Gnome and #KDE, there are still plenty of stackable and tileable #WindowManger that you can choice, for instance I am using Window Makers and calling it WM is extremely reductive though.
WWW is the real problem, my tests eventually I found that #Firefox with specific extension is the most realiable and usable:
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/pebcak/ (2023-02-06)
The point is always the same: garbage WWW, full of trackers, useless javascript, poor design and abuse of CSS, CDN, external fonts just because computing times is cheaper of programming.
Right! But cheaper for who, if to smoothly open any website, without extensions, I need at least a $400 personal computer? (Not a BromiumBook)
Just to recap $60 vs $400...