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It was a specific choice. My PC is a little long in the tooth, sucks power, and is overly loud for where it was situated.
The pi is doing fine for my relatively non-demanding usage. If I do set up the old PC again, I'll probably wind up installing Mint or something, rather than buy upgrades and crap to support Windows 11.