[wastedyears]

I have no idea about anything you just said.

[Paladin2]

I've built PCs for myself and for my kids when they were in undergraduate school (years back now).

It's the ol' skool American way.

Now I'm trying out an alternative to upgrading to Win8/Win10; Linux as the operating system with way to run a Windows virtual computer as a window in Linux to be able to use old favourite windows software. It's going well enough to see that for desktop PCs, Linux is the way of freedom and the way to keep the computer personal.