How many computers do you guys have?

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I was wondering because when I mention I have 20 computers in my house, they give me a weird look.  I currently have my gaming rig running Manjaro Linux, my laptop running a dual boot of FreeBSD and Kali, 5 servers all running CentOS, 2 other laptops I use for application development (one is a mac and one is on windows), I also have the 2 Raspberry Pis that power my drone and my cell phone, my Arduino, my OpenWRT box, and then I have 7 Spondoolies SP35s to mine Bitcoin, I run a cloud mining operation but most people still give me a weird look whenever I mention that.  I didn't even count the number of old PCs I have in my basement because I mean how many you use on a regular basis.

 

So now i'm wondering how many computers you guys have.

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what constitutes a computer? does my amazon fire stick count as one? all my mobile phones?

 

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I have my gaming PC on Win7, my OnePlus One which is basically a PC for all intents and purposes, an RPi Model B that I haven't found a use for yet, and an old HP I plan on using for a pfSense box whenever I get around to buying parts. 

Those are just my computers but my family has two old Dell Latitude laptops, one is on a Celeron based system and it sucks ass. It had XP but my mom uses it for shopping and bank shit so I convinced her to let me throw Ubuntu on it. Currently in the process of switching over the other Core 2 Duo laptop over to Ubuntu. The Core 2 Duo one is smaller and actually a lot nicer, it has a shitload of functionality for what it is (has a modem, LAN, wi-fi, bluetooth, optical drive, FireWire, PCcard bus, docking port, SD card reader). We also have a Toshiba Satellite that is out of order ATM. About a year ago I built my little brother a gaming PC out of spare parts and an A8-3870K that I got for free from AMD. After a year I got him a 7870XT for a hundred bucks and now he can play anything on it. That system is also running Win7, but it isn't activated lol.

Other than that my router is a Linksys WRT54GS2 running a micro build of DD-WRT (this thing is on its last leg, 300MHz Broadcom CPU FTW \m/!) and a stock Netgear ADSL modem.

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Raspberry Pis, laptops, desktops, things you can do productivity things without a dumbed down shitty mobile version.

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If you are really concerned about security, I wouldn't have your bank PC use Ubuntu, it is less secure than something like Fedora or Debian because of Canonicals spying software in the Unity DE...

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In my house, I own three computers, Gaming rig, laptop, and an old office pc I turned into a media server. But my mom, dad, and sister all have their own desktops that I have built for them, and my sister's PC is a light gaming PC with an i3 and a GTX 650 Ti

so, there are 6 PCs total.

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I'm aware of that. It's still light-years more secure than Windows XP, or more secure than Mint. I had issues with Manjaro on it that I didn't feel like troubleshooting, and several other distros I tried had trouble supporting the wi-fi card. My parents aren't very tech savvy so I just said fuck it and installed Ubuntu.

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I've got an AMD FX-6300 machine with 8GB (soon to be 24GB) of RAM running Proxmox VE, and it does most of my heavy lifting as far as servers go. I've got several old machines doing misc junk with Celerons in them, including a web server, a Zabbix monitoring server, and one I haven't decided what to do with just yet. I've also got my HP Pavilion laptop, which is my main PC, plus a 10 inch Compaq that had Windows XP but now has Debian/Fedora/Puppy Linux for misc portable uses. I have a Galaxy S4 that has so many nerdy apps on it for random networking junk that it might as well be a 5 inch laptop, I'm waiting on my Nexus 7 to get here in the mail, and I have a Raspberry Pi that I use as an arcade game system. I also have a dual core media PC that is technically mine, but since its in the living room it kind of belongs to my whole family. It's had Windows 7 for the longest time but I'm about to either switch to Fedora Workstation, SteamOS, or Debian.

Oh yeah and I have a 1.24Ghz VIA embedded board running pfSense, it does great for that even though VIA is kind of a no-name company.

Yeah, you could say I'm a bit obsessed :P

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I've got my main rig (in profile), some toshiba laptop from 2009, HP Mini netbook, A 2008 Dell DL580 g4 4u server with 4 xeon's in my basement collecting dust, Both my parents have old laptops, I also built a computer for my sister LINK: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/DDHRMp

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I have one gaming PC that is hooked up to my desk and my TV i5 4590 with a GTX 760. 2 laptops an i3 330m and a newer i7 just remember its a ivy bridge. Also going to put an old A10 5800K to work in a Small ATX system and load Steam os on it for streaming.

Then I have a work owned tower here at the house that has a xeon e3 1230v3 with a 980.

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I guess based on your definition I have 7. My main desktop/gaming machine/daily driver which is a i7 based Windows PC, My "fileserver" an old dual core intel, my i7 laptop running OpenSuse, then 3 more windows PC's used by other members of the household, but I maintain them all, then my Moto G phone.

I'd like to convert the "server" over to Linux at some point - just not sure which flavor I want to go with. Really enjoying OpenSuse on my laptop. All it does right now is run a Ventrilo server, but there are plans to have it do much, much more.

EDIT* - I forgot my HP Netbook that currently has Chromium OS on it I think. I was bored one night....

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One Windows desktop

One Sabayon Linux/Windows destop

1 Macbook Pro

1 MSI GS60 Windows/OpenSuse Linux

1 Mac Mini running CentOS

3 Tablets Running Ubuntu

1 Nexus 5 Running Sailfish/Ubuntu

1 iPhone 5s

1 PowerPC NAS running Debian

 

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+1, I am rather partial to OpenSuse for security.

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a 35 yo woman with no IT background is going to be using this thing

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2 desktops

- One, currently not used Core 2 Duo, 8 Gigs of DDR2 memory, Ubuntu 14.04.

- Newer one, AMD FX 6350, 8 Gigs of DDR3, AMD HD7750 2GB, Ubuntu 14.10 / Windows 8.1 for Skyrim;

Laptops:

- new Lenovo Thinkpad E540 with i7 4712MQ, 8Gigs of DDR3 (soon to be 16Gigs), Nvidia 740M, 15" 1080p, pure Ubuntu 14.10, everything including Skyrim running amazingly 

- old MSI GX723 gaming laptop - Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz, 4 Gigs of DDR2, Nvidia 130m (running Skyrim on medium), busted 17" screen, Ubuntu 14.10 / Windows 8.1 for Skyrim

- old Acer 10+ years laptop with 1GHz single core Pentium, 1Gig of RAM (upgraded from 256 MB), Lubuntu 14.04

 

Other: 

- Raspberry Pi, B+ OC 950MHz, custom LEGO case, running RaspBMC;

- Asus Padfone 1st Gen, running Android 4.1, busted tablet and keyboard add-ons (bad fall on icy stairs);

- countless older machines, formerly including ZX Spectrum, several old communist "PCs", and 386 that I gave away for kids to play on several years ago.... still running and older then me :D

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I have my i5 gtx 760 rig and my macbook pro 

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3 laptops (one mac, one linux/windows dual boot, one old windows laptop that i don't use)... 1 home server...

no tablets, a couple of smart phones (android for personal use, blackberry for work).

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1 Dell Latitude E5530 ATM - that's it

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I have a nice Desktop running Windows 7, a nice laptop running Windows 8.1, and a work laptop running Arch Linux.

If I didn't like playing games from time to time I'd leave Windows forever...

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If I told you might be accused of hording... Prey tell, 32 and a half... Yes, a half.....