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My main rig is an AMD Ryzen 7950X with a Radeon 7900 XT. I knew I wanted a 7950X after seeing it fly through Windows 9x on 86box (cycle-accurate 80s/90s PC emulator), and throw some punches playing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (also why I got the 7900 XT, it's only slightly worse than a 4080). This was the rig I recently bought from a vendor and so far I'm in love with it. It does Linux near-perfectly, the liquid cooling and RGB needs a bit of tweaking but Liquidctl + OpenRGB does the trick right now.

Then, I have a gaming laptop with a Core i7 and RTX 2070 Super smushed into it. This was like a grand cheaper than buying a whole new rig, especially since the rig at the time wasn't really broken or problematic. I was also depressed from COVID lockdowns so probably wasn't my best decision, lol. This laptop served me well gaming-wise but I can't use Linux on it, like at all. Fractional scaling issues and Intel's RST makes it a pain.

Then there's my Steam Deck, which basically rendered the laptop and my Nintendo Switch obsolete. If I know I'm going to need a portable gaming system, I just bring my Steam Deck out now.

i5 6600K overclocked to 4.5 GHz and an RX 6600 for the desktop (at some point I will finally get around to upgrading the CPU lol), laptop is just a T470.

main pc: 2015 toshiba satellite held together by duct tape (runs arch BTW) second pc: an old HP laptop that was given to me recently, don't know when it was made but it has a windows 7 sticker on it (also runs arch BTW ~~am I good for 2 accounts here now?~~) and a tower PC I was given and used as makeshift server until the HDD started failing S.M.A.R.T. tests and I haven't replaced the drive on it yet, ran various things on it, but mostly centos (before it got killed) and then rocky, also has a windows 7 sticker on it.

(and like the true weeb I am I named them all after anime girls)

I shall start: I have one too many PCs hanging around. My main desktop, my main laptop, my NAS, my old desktop and my old laptop. Desktop for every day use, laptop for travelling, NAS for data hoarding, old laptop because I still havent gotten around setting it up to give it to my mom and my old desktop is there if I need Windows but I can't be bothered to boot out of Linux and it has some old game save files I still haven't bothered moving for over for 4 years now...

As for hardware, I will just mention my main desktop and laptop because they are the only ones I really use much and I don't know the specs of the rest by memory.

Desktop:

i9 9900k

RTX 3090

64GB of RAM

4TB of SSD storage

Runs Manjaro, Arch and in case of horrible emergencies a locked down version of Windows 10 LTSC

Just upgraded it 2 days ago (added 2TB of storage and retired the 1080ti I had before). Yes, it is overkill as hell but for good(?) reasons. When I have originally prewritten this post 2 weeks ago I was complaining I couldn't find a new GPU for it but I finally found a decent used GPU last week.

Laptop:

i7 6th gen (don't remember the exact model on the top of my head)

GTX 960M

16GB of RAM

1TB SSD

Runs Arch

I bought this for cheap last year. I don't know what the previous owner did with the screen (I forgot to ask) but there is something funny going on with it and I got no clue how to fix it :(

0 issues with any of the hardware except the occasional nvidia driver pooping itself on update. Some of the peripherals could do with some dedicated software for it (wheel, webcam, mouse and so on), but it all works out of the box so I am alright with it. All in all as of right now I am incredibly happy with the setup and I have 0 updates planned for it till something decides to break.

Very very controversial opinion: I will be dead before I buy something from AMD again. Nvidia and their drivers are faaaaar from perfect, but at least the worst I have ever had to do was to just reinstall drivers when they fail to update properly (its been a long time since the last time too), AMD drivers are an absolute pain in the ass from my experience.

I (used to) work with HPC a lot, so I avoid using computers much at home. I have only a 2017 Asus ZenBook that runs some out of date (probably) Ubuntu distro. Mostly I use my Samsung tablet or Pixel 6. The house has a raspberry pi attached to my router serving as a Pi-hole. I really want to get a Nextcloud server set up but I gotta figure that out.