My first ever PC, that was mine mind you, was some cheap AMD Athlon back in 2008, after that when the i7 came out I was on that train until very recently when I

My first ever PC, that was mine mind you, was some cheap AMD Athlon back in 2008, after that when the i7 came out I was on that train until very recently when I picked up a 3700X instead -- so essentially 11 years of Intel for me. I'm not really attached to either brand just what's currently the best, can run Linux, and whose owning company/companies are behaving themselves (stability/support/development).