I think this comes down to personal needs. The first step might be to check what applications was running recent week and what applications have been opened dur

I think this comes down to personal needs. The first step might be to check what applications was running recent week and what applications have been opened during last year. Then rank the applications based on importance and look if they have alternatives. Sometimes there is also other ways to look at the tasks/problems. Certainly for gaming there could be better ways such as gaming consoles, for productivity/multimedia a mobile device may do the job better (due to app availability). Everything aren't bound to be solved on a single computer as was mostly the fact 20 years ago. Although, I am certainly opinionated and biased as I've opted for open (mostly GPL#/BSD licensed) solutions where they apply for at least 20 years and always in some nix-based operating system on my desktop. I feel miserable whenever I am forced to be on a Windows desktop, but that tend to be the case on an Apple mobile device or Android device too.. (but I happily use Apple and Android devices for certain tasks).