Devil's advocate (I use Ubuntu at home). My parents 20 years ago had a windows xp lenovo notebook, never had to reinstall, battery just stopped working after 10

Devil's advocate (I use Ubuntu at home). My parents 20 years ago had a windows xp lenovo notebook, never had to reinstall, battery just stopped working after 10 years, IIRC. My brother had a windows 8 notebook, never had to reinstall, 1 year and half ago the hdd failed, he bought a new notebook, I kept the old one with a cheap ssd as a spare. In 2010 I bought an acer 4810tg (450€, really cheap) with windows 7. Over time I upgraded RAM and replaced hdd with ssd using dd to copy data from old hdd to new ssd, so no reinstall was done. I stopped using it because it became too slow, even for a "normal" linux distro with a DE (I don't have time anymore to play around with distros).