@ryo @Misato Well, web browsers are horrendous and I do always have a shitload of stuff open (because the likelihood of me doing something is increased if don't have to open a file or a program and just leave it running), and I do edit videos. Not too frequently, but I probably will do that more after my life stops being a nightmare and I can get more equipment to record more things. I do abuse the shit out of my computers and have frozen them many time before because of a combination of what I was doing and shitty software. Sometimes you close a browser window with a lot of stuff in it and it just decides to use 8 GB of RAM and all 8 GB of swap, that's just how these things go, unfortunately. Sometimes you use an XMPP client and it takes you a while to realize that it's leaking literally all of your RAM.

Gaming is something that I can just do on another machine and it's not a big deal. PC games are almost all for x86 and also not free, so I would never run them on my main computer anyway. And emulators do run just fine on very old hardware. Hell, even most PC games do, since most games are not new, especially good games. Still, I do miss playing some newer games. And by newer I mean, games that came out 10 years ago because to me that's new.

And there are a few games that I have wanted to play for years but haven't, because I can't run them. Though I could run some of them on my PS3, actually. I just don't have an HDMI monitor, so I can only hook it up to my CRT, but the games are all 16:9, and a 20 inch 4:3 screen is just not good for that. Though PS3 games do look fine on it for the most part. The only one that I tried that looked bad was Castlevania Harmony of Despair, because it seems like that game just needs a higher resolution to look right.

But yeah, if I had the hardware, I could play more Dark Souls, because only 800 hours was not enough, I still want to play it some more. And I could play more Ryu ga Gotoku games because since the day that my HDMI monitor died, it stopped being a PlayStation-only series. And I think Persona 5 Royal is going to come out on PC, so I could consider playing that after researching to see if there's nothing wrong with it compared to the original. Still haven't played P5 and I wanted to do it since before it was released two year ago. Oh, it has been six years. That's fucked up, I am dying.

Anyway, I would still go for a desktop even if it was exactly as powerful as the laptop. They are just easier computers to work on and have better air flow and I can stick a bunch of drives in them (maybe even a tape drive one of these days), and I can stick them in my shelf or under my monitor if it's not too big. I would be happy enough with a RISC-V desktop with specs comparable to my W500, and SATA connections, and some PCIe slots, and hopefully a VGA port. PS/2 would be nice too.