I've already got most of a gaming desktop, save a slowly dying video card that I can replace for ~$300. I used to have linux on it but ran into some issues (honestly I don't even remember what broke initially - all I know is that my current ubuntu install won't boot), and ran into some more issues when I tried to install 11.04 on it again. I've also got a laptop with 11.04 on it with a slowly dying hard drive that I need to send it to fix, but I can't atm because that would kind of leave me without a computer as I go into my first week of college.

But in short, I'm tired of dealing with this shit. I'm probably going to keep my desktop around regardless and fix it up for gaming, and probably slab linux on there along with windows, but I want to have a "just works" machine that I can use a little more reliably.

edit: but of course, if that "just works" machine is going to make me twitch every time I use, then I wouldn't go for it.