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I would be so worried about destroying the GPU I’d sooner remove the motherboard and reinstall them both as a single component. Idk if it’s just me but I always have an ass of a time getting the GPU in and out of the PCI slot with some trepidatious combination of rocking, pulling/pushing what feels like way too hard, and destroying my fingers trying to operate that little slot lock piece. Skill issue?

Well, the original comment was about Microsoft products, which includes the OS. I understand if you say you meant to only refer to the Office software as “core services”, but “we” are talking about Microsoft products and I would argue their flagship OS is the corest of them all, and as you said it’s garbo.

I will never forget the bewilderment I felt the first time the File Explorer crashed – and that hasn’t been the only time. Forget Office, they can’t even get the start menu to work properly. Call it feature rich if you like, but of any modern OS they are the furthest away from the core stuff working reliably in my experience.