My bad that it didn't get across that I do use Debian lol I have been for a while now. I don't mind dealing with outdated packages because it's stable. Would a more up-to-date distro be more or less stable? I don't know enough to comment on it, but with the stability issues I experienced in Windows (unrelated to the oc), I really wanted something that I could throw on there and leave alone for a few years.

I also drive a car from the 90s and I look at any IoT device with contempt. The refrigerator stays off my network.

But yeah, with the Win 10 EOL coming up, I wasn't gonna upgrade because my machine really still does everything I want it to do. This was a bit more of a shit post. My PC didn't hit 60 FPS in a game that it doesn't even meet minimum spec for. Iirc, Cyberpunk requires at least a 7700K. Wasn't looking for advice. Just messing around. ;)

The most I use my PC for outside of gaming is surfing the web, spreadsheets, and hosting files. Nice to have my own collection of movies to stream when the Internet goes down lol

I'm not implying that my PC running Debian is twice as fast as it was on Windows. I just really appreciate two things about it: 1) This CPU is still fast enough for what I want from it a decade later, and 2) That Linux was so much easier to learn than I ever anticipated. I guess it helps that I ran Ubuntu on various laptops for a decade before moving my gaming PC to a Linux distro.