Finally got VanillaOS installed on my old tower. My original boot usb wasn't doing it... no idea what it was doing wrong, I didn't look at logs, but it wouldn't boot after install no matter what I did.
So I went back to Debian.
So I went back to Debian.
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No idea what was different, but that's okay. It's just nice to have a machine back... even if its only for the time being.