For my personal devices:
- Microsoft products from MS DOS 6.x or so through Windows Vista
- Ubuntu 6.06 through maybe 9.04 or so
- Arch Linux from 2009 through 2015
- MacOS from 2011 through current
- Arch Linux from 2022 through current
I’ve worked with work systems that used RedHat and Ubuntu back in the late 2000’s, plus decades of work computers with Windows. But I’m no longer in a technical career field so I haven’t kept on top of the latest and greatest.
I was a dual major Electrical Engineering/Philosophy. The rigorous logic in some branches of philosophy was very helpful for programming principles. And the the philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of mind has overlaps with and supplements modern AI theory pretty well.
I’m out of the tech world now but if I were hiring entry level software developers, I’d consider a philosophy degree to be a plus, at least for people who have the threshold competency in actual programming.