Living in a third world country often means having no warranty. Because companies don’t have a presence in the country and you have to pay for shipping and tariffs out of pocket so between the cost and the chance of it getting stolen on customs it’s cheaper to just buy a new one

Bay leaves, at this point is just a cultural thing

Depending on the hardware windows might be the getter option. For example I have a laptop with a GPU that doesn’t support Vulkan or OpenGL 4.3, but it can run dx11 very well