While it's not as necessary on newer hardware, old and less capable desktops or laptops could get a helpful boost from any USB storage drives lying around.
The bootable rescue environment I reach for when systems won’t start.
It might not fully replace a traditional Raspberry Pi system, but this is as fast as these kinds of flash drives get.
Format a USB-flash for multiboot. Bootice (select usb flash drive) > Parts manage > Re-Partitioning > USB-HDD mode (Single Partition) > File System FAT32/NTFS (FAT32 does not support files more than ...