So long as you're not interested in playing AAA titles on release with max graphics, you can go quite a while between builds. I got over a decade on my last one, and will probably do the same with my current machine.

Gaming is a drain on my money. I can't afford any new systems really. If I get a new system it'll be a tiny BeeLink mini PC just for running Linux - to do the basics link email and banking. Currently I have a Samsung Galaxy a06 lol

nope, I'll just whack a new gpu in this old war horse some reused and affordable. tbh devs aren't making upgrading worth my while. U5 sucks, the games look soulless and spending 2k to get better light diffusion from lazy devs on unoptimised slop??? no thank you.

Consumer closed source Operating systems could seize the opportunity to become more modular, thus imposing fewer useless agents on their users

I could use some RAM but no way in hell that's happening

Yeah, I've just accepted the PC I have today is probably the final PC I will own. Sure, something might break and I'll replace that one part. But it would be like-for-like and probably at great cost. I really hope things go back to normal in a few years. But with everything going on, I doubt it. And with the push for you will own nothing and be happy, we might not be able to buy high-end computers for reasonable prices ever again.

i really hope deepseek helps change this, from the looks of it is way more efficient