I have multiple times postponed buying new computers for YEARS, because I'm waiting for intel to get their head out of their ass and actually let me buy something that does ECC for desktop. (incl laptops)

I would have bought computers when I "wanted one". Now I buy them when I need one. Because buying a non-ECC computer just feels like buying a defective product.

In the last 10 years I would have bought TWICE as many computers if they hadn't segmented their market.

Fuck intel. I sense that Linus self-censored himself in this post, and like me is even angrier than the text implies.