Thats why I don't upgrade unless i find slightly shinier trash that fits. For about 4-5 years, my windows install was on a shitty old laptop HDD, I ran windows 8.1 embedded that I got for free. Finally bought a cheap SSD and used a windows 10 education license I also got for free.
Unless you're doing actual work on the machine, ie 3d rendering, photo work, building kernels, etc, you're set for 7-8 years with a CPU thats 1-2 below whats considered high-end.
Thats why I don't upgrade unless i find slightly shinier trash that fits. For about 4-5 years, my windows install was on a shitty old laptop HDD, I ran windows 8.1 embedded that I got for free. Finally bought a cheap SSD and used a windows 10 education license I also got for free.
Unless you're doing actual work on the machine, ie 3d rendering, photo work, building kernels, etc, you're set for 7-8 years with a CPU thats 1-2 below whats considered high-end.