I'm like that. I have a ten year old PC still running windows 8. I treat it like an appliance. I use it only for running Visual Studio. Anything else is a bonus. I haven't touched the hardware, haven't upgraded it, nothing. Now the problem is I'm getting notifications that pretty much everything is now out of support. I will continue using it until I can no longer perform my job using it.
Then what. Well, I'll probably change to a new Asus and load Linux and use Visual Studio Code. C# works just fine on Linux. And my new PC will decay because I will never touch it or upgrade it.
I never imagined getting over ten years of use out of a PC, yet here I am.
Oh, I forgot, I have an older PC running windows 7 on it. I use it only for printing on an old ink jet epson and the last version of Adobe Suite CS 6 that doesn't need to be connected to the cloud.
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