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Or because for simple uses cases a 10 year old PC works just fine and there is no reason to upgrade.

A lot of people are on a ten year old machine because they'll get no additional value out of a newer one. Other than gaming, compiling, video editing or LLMs, what's the use case for a new machine?

In some cases, power efficiency. Modern software is quite bloated in general, so a newer CPU/GPU on a more efficient architecture could actually have an effect on power bills in some parts of the world - especially over a 10+ year life span.

Indeed, switching Windows PCs is like pulling teeth because of having to re-discover all of the little programs you had downloaded previously. I was a supporter of the "Windows Store" they added in Windows 8 and 10 for this reason, it let me try to keep as much of my software in one place. MS also used to have a "digital locker" service for this kind of thing but that's long gone from the Vista days.