[chucktingle]

I'll give you two reasons.

1. In many countries $6500 is enough to start a business. I'd rather do that than pay for an overpriced piece of aluminum with a piece of fruit etched on one of the sides. What if I'm not the business type? That's fine. It's still probably better to save that money.

2. Modern computing is turning into a dumpster fire. It will be pretty soon that the Intel platform will work in the same way as the above-mentioned fruitty platform and you won't be able to run whatever software you want on it. While I agree OP is probably making his life extra miserable [1], I admire people like him, since their efforts will give us the next free/fun computing platform.

[1] I too run a Raspberry Pi at home, but I've long given up on turning it into a desktop machine. There is an easier way to run modern software on cheap hardware with a fraction of the hassle.