What games?

Honestly unless your seeing performance issues, I’d just keep the cash and buy more games.

But you ou could go to a 5800x3d on the same mb/ram. It’d be a drop in cores, but depending on the games it could be beneficial.

Or upgrade cpu/ram/mb to the newest gen

I’m at an age where I really don’t want to deal with configuring Linux. My requirements are that it needs to work, it needs to be quick and easy to configure, and I need to be able to develop on it without any hassle.

Ubuntu is great for this. I can spend my days programming, instead of fighting my system

According to my title, I own a few meters deep. But I don’t own mineral or mining or gas rights to my land.

Alberta, Canada

Apt is quite good for the debian based systems. I’ve never had a problem in the last decade installing anything on debian or Ubuntu