Revenue-generation from traffic tickets, if the town is along a major highway.
In other cases, it's usually because the towns are just so far away from anything else and you can't always wait 45 minutes for a cop to drive out from the city.
I really want to switch to Linux as my main gaming/production OS but need the Adobe suite
That's not a hurdle... that's a wall.
If your livelihood depends on running a Windows-only application, run it on a Windows computer.
You are, of course, free to also have a Linux computer for everything else. Use a KVM switch to toggle between them, or something like Synergy or Barrier to pass the mouse/keyboard/clipboard between both PCS. Share the storage between them over your network.
If I'm opening the Google app, it's because I want to search for something. If I'm searching for something, I'm busy right now and don't appreciate Google trying to distract me with other irrelevant crap.
I miss hanging out at bookstores, with comfortable seating areas and coffee shops and maybe a quiet musician on weekends... met some really smart and educated people that way.
I recently wandered into an old Borders like that where I used to spend a lot of time years ago, which is now a Books-a-Million. It was like being in a K-Mart. Dirty, dimly-lit, product stacked randomly everywhere (including just left on stocking carts abandoned in the aisles), hot because they had the A/C set to barely run at all (everyone inside was sweating), all seating gone, the kitchen area just ripped out and bare plumbing left exposed, with hardly any staff or customers in there at all. The book selection was gutted down to be mostly romance, horror, manga and self-help. I guess that's what the few people still coming in buy.
By the time enough longevity data has been collected to be really useful, obsolescence is becoming a factor. And even if the same model number is still being sold, the hardware inside may have changed and all of the data may not be directly relevant.
Sticking with a reputable product line and assuming that past performance is relevant doesn't always help, either... I remember the DeskstarDeathstar drives fiasco, and got bit hard by it.
HDDs are for cheap, not for reliable. Anecdotal, but my personal failure rate with HDDs is around 98% while my failure rate with all forms of flash media (including SSDs) is around 2%.
With 1 TB SSDs being available for as little as $20 (not particularly fast ones but still far faster than HDDs), I don't see a use-case for HDDs at all unless you need dozens of TBs of storage.
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Revenue-generation from traffic tickets, if the town is along a major highway.
In other cases, it's usually because the towns are just so far away from anything else and you can't always wait 45 minutes for a cop to drive out from the city.