Hello fellow nixers,
This thread is about how you handle your multiple machines.

Having multiple piece of hardware can be confusing. You probably have a main box with your main equipment that you spend most of your time on, the cherished ones.

That's probably the one box you backup frequently.

What about your other machines and accessories?
When do you use them?
Are they just servers laying around the house?
Your special rig for gaming?
An old hacking box with some sort of weird OS you play around with during the weekends?
A RP that's running daemons?

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I have a spared laptop at home which I setup with Debian stable. I got excited about it when I finished my install however I just can't feel the same way about it as my main machine. It still feels like it's a secondary one that I barely use. There's no way in hell that I would scatter my files around. I tried it at first working on different machines but it got annoying when I had to transfer projects around.

The sane solution I had was to completely make the switch from one machine to another and stop using the oldest one.

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The question is; Do you really have multiple main boxes, and if not what do you do with your spared machines and hardwares?