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George

I have quite a few systems setup for work and general usage, 4 that I actively use. And about 7 older ones that I no longer use or keep as something I could run tests on.

1) AMD machine used for gaming, dual booted on Windows 10 and Linux Mint.

I originally bought the machine a few years ago when I was a hardcore gamer, I wanted something to be able to play games at high quality but without making my bank account yell at me so I went with this. Over the years I went from a hardcore gamer to getting more into programming. Hence the recent decision I made to dual boot.

2) Macbook Air 2016
Most of the time at home I'll use my if I need to make something in Swift or Objective-C (very rarely), I often have it sat on my desk with films or tv series playing while working. The main usage comes from unvirsity and travel. I wanted something I knew that has good performance, battery life and a nice OS for on the go.

3) Server Machine
In my house I had a 4 box server setup. Two of the boxes I use for work, file storage, weekly backups etc. One of them is used for the family media content, I often keep books I've used to learn things as a PDF stored on there also. The other one is used as a fallback, so if something starts failing it'll fall back onto that one loading backups.

4) Raspberry PI media
I setup a TV above my desk that is hooked up to a raspberry pi running on the back, running on Debian it's mainly a media machine for when I'm in bed. It also links into the media server so, as well as having Netflix on it. I have some other plans that I'm hoping to introduce in the future for it, such as ordering a pizza with a macro.