It was easy to get the iMac to boot off of a Debian live USB, install s3ql and its dependencies on that, and do rsync to backup the whole drive. I use s3ql and Google Cloud Storage for my cloud backups and wanted to do a complete backup of this drive. The old hard drive had a still working but slow spinning disk drive full of personal documents and photos from my family. So maybe I can throw Windows 7 on it, have a stable Windows machine around for once, and have an actual gaming PC? I went for it.
At the same time, though, I don't play games released in the past decade. I thought it might make a good web browsing appliance but I didn't realistically see it getting much use in this household. The iMac was released in 2011 with a Sandy Bridge i5, a big, beautiful monitor, 12 GB of RAM or so, and an integrated, laptop-grade Radeon 6750M graphics card. I've had this iMac 12,1 sitting around for a few years unused.
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