Windows 10 support is over. Likely switching to a version of Linux

FWIW, while I've been grousing about Microsoft since I started using their operating systems - mostly - I have also used their operating system products to good effect for 40 years now, so most of my grousing is fairly muted.
I've always been amazed at how much support and updating I've been able to take advantage of without having to pay any additional payment - in some cases years of it on the same machine. And I always wonder about the economic wisdom of that approach.

Never seen or used Linux.
Switched to Windows 11 years ago ... can't remember when; initial upgrade on an old Dell PC wasn't successful, so toddle off to buy a PC with Win 11 and I lived happily ever after...

...Sort of...

A few recent W11 updates have caused lock-ups / the dreadful blue screen of death; nothing a few mental gymnastics and daily backups cannot fix, very smoothly at that. I have switched off auto-updates so I can eyeball just what the updates contain and will do, potentially and theoretically, and chose whether or not to download them.

Generally after 4-5 years I ditch a PC and buy another, more powerful one. I'm about 12+ months away now from going down that route once again for the "next best thing"— whatever that might be.