The Desk Top Revisited

Oh well here we are again, and now I am using MS Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) for my desk top, I have a MSI 880GM-E43 motherboard with a AMD PhenomII x2 running at 3200 Mhz  with 4 MB of Kingston Ram, and a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT with two LCD monitors.
It runs most of my apps including: eclipse, NetBeans, arduino, Xilinx PlanAhead, TinyCad, and too many more for a reinstall. So what does all this mean. I don't really know. Since I have retired, I have been working on my flight simulator project at wordpress.com. I have had problems with Ethernet drives of all things. After a RMA'ed motherboard and new drivers everything is looks fine, maybe I should just cross my fingers! The people over at MSI are really good.
I would still like to have a real UNIX/LINUX desktop....one of these days....later