The Difference between a PC and a “Workstation”
Back in the early days of Personal Computers ( 1980’s era) a workstation was a high end , large , heavy computer with 1,000 k ( a kilobyte which is 1/000 of a megabyte, a gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes).
Cost approximately $ 10,000. A PC was small and insignificant in comparison – 64 k of memory ( versus 1,000 k) , a tiny small computer screen, a floppy or two. Cost $ 4,000 vs $ 10,000.
Even though modern computers are speed supercomputers in comparison to yesteryear’s computers the modern workstation is ahead of the Joneses as well. You can never keep up.
Maybe it is the software the workstations use. Most workstations are designed to run UNIX or Linux based operating systems. PCs run Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh software.
Nothing said in stone that your new computer cannot run Linix or a Linux distro as well as Windows and be dual boot.