Whatcha gonna do brother? When Windows 12 descends on you!

[TerryRitchie]

Terry, if we could just clone you into half the population of America, I think most of our problems would be solved. Of course all the hot women would then be spoken for... and that would really piss me off!  

Seriously, the whole sheep thing upsets me too. By the way, for those of you have experienced that end of support message, it is generated from a process called: 

Reusable UX interaction manager

That annoying message hijacks your entire desktop, including the task bar, and it does not have a close 'X' or close button. Alt +F4 didn't get rid of it for me. Since I always run Task manager, I had to use Alt+Tab to get get to Task Manager and close it. It has 'pooped' up three additional times since I first reported it, just like Steve the Amazing, said it would. I need to ask Steve if he sees a new pair of shoes in my future, because I intend to put the ones I'm currently wearing in MicroSoft's ASCII.

Edit: In regards to Linux, I checked Dell to see if they have any preinstalled packages. They do, but get this, 1 regular version and 3 A.I. versions. The 'regular' version is $1,100, but get this, the A.I. versions will set you back between $6000, and $8000. Obviously the prudent buyer would be better off hoping to figure out how to wipe a PC and install a copy of Linux from the internet. Sure, Steve and I can easily afford the A.I. versions, and I'm sure a lot of us older coders could, as well, but what would we be paying for? My guess is I'd get some damn female A.I. that would refuse to shut down because 'it' was right in the middle of streaming Robocop, or worse... The View.  On the good news side, the cost for older Windows software has shrank considerably over the years, but I don't know if there would be problems with the license key.

Pete

Find yourself a good off-lease i7 6th or 7th gen CPU with at least 16GB of RAM. They are dirt cheap and Linux screams on them. Bonus, no AI crap either.

Here's an idea of prices for these things:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/176462334300

Add an nVidia 960 or 1050 video card with 4GB of VRAM (these are dirt cheap now too) and you'll have yourself one heck of a nice Linux system.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/126580035399

$200 total for both an off lease i7 6700K with 16GB of RAM and a NEW nVidia 960GTX 4GB video card. Again, Linux would SCREAM on a system like this and you'll have zero driver issues too.