Nice article. Waiting for the upcoming parts.

Blinry did something similar not to lomg ago, maybe it’s interesting for you, too: https://blinry.org/tiny-linux/

Or use booster, it’s imo even faster and easier to configure, then mkinitcpio and dracut.

FYI The Windows License is more like $20-$40. The OEM Version costs $40 retail and MSI has probably a better deal. That’s how Microsoft got Windows on nearly every prebuilt PC since the mid 90ies.

My first own computer was a Pentium II with 300Mhz, 64MB Memory, an Elsa Gladiac Erazor graphics card and a 4GB HDD. I got it around the year 2000, it was a used computer from the company of my parents. Before I got this one I was allowed to play on the 286 and later the 486 which my parents had in their company’s office. My first mobile was a Nokia 6210 and I got it around the year 2001.