@MelissaBenyon One #SpendingStrike idea (I hope it fits) is buying used, and seeing if your local library has volunteer "Fix it"days where you can bring in small appliances for repair instead of buying a new one.

I'd also suggest if people don't want to buy a new PC for the "privilege" of running Windows 11, consider trying out the free Linux Operating system to get years more useful life out out a computer that the large corporations wants you to think is obsolete.

@Jgmeadows @MelissaBenyon
Since I can no longer run my ancient Photoshop/illustrator (now gimp/inkscape) or my ancient msoffice (now libre office/google docs) on my current PC, its really just games on steam tying me to windows. And nothing truley resource hungry. And I understand theres some decent emulation/wine support on Linux now (havent looked into deeply yet).

So yeah, playing chicken with Microsoft's #windows11 announcement for now, but 2025 might just be the year of #linux on the desktop! Lol.

Might be different if I had to do 'work' on it, but that's what the work laptop is for (amusingly, that's a Mac).