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i made mistake i guess of making a legacy electrum wallet on my mobile and now i cant pay any reasonable tx fees so i am trying to set up electrum on my PC. is it possible to just open my existing mobile wallet on PC version or do i have to make new wallet on pc and move coins between the 2. thanks in advance

Just restore the wallet on your computer with the 12 words seeds that you were given during your creation of your mobile Electrum wallet. Note that the fees would still be similar but you should be able to choose your own fees. You will want to create another wallet with the bech32 addresses (bc1) to pay lesser fees in the future. You can send the funds to that wallet when making your transaction.

* Fees appears to be fairly low right now and you can probably get away with paying ~13 sat/vbyte and get a confirmation within the next few hours.

Do you have any bitcoin left on your mobile wallet and do you have seed words backup in safe offline place?
You don't have to create new wallet for PC but you can just import your seed words in desktop Electrum (if you have them) and you will have the option to select all address formats with bc1 bech32 having lowest fees from all of them.

Electrum's seed format has specific version numbers embedded and it will automatically choose the kind of address you'll generate, which is legacy in OP's case. You'll have to generate a new seed specifically for Segwit addresses if you want to use it.

you can create a segwit wallet on your mobile as well. just tap the hamburger icon in the top right > wallets > new. it's possible to have unlimited wallets each in their own file.