Do you share a home computer with your SO?

[lolalolalola]

DH and I have always shared a home computer. I only use my work computer for work, but he has used his work computer for home stuff. He was just laid off 4 days ago so doesn’t have use of his work computer, and we already have conflict on who gets to use it when. I feel like we should easily work out a schedule to share it but was curious to know what others do!

[audry80]

We share a home computer and my H was just laid off a week ago as well!

Since I have my work computer, he gets full use of our home computer since he is using it for interview prep, interviews, etc. If there is anything I need it for, I use it around his needs.

I don’t need it often since I use my phone for non work approved internet usage.

[fernweh]

He has a desktop that I honestly don’t know the last time he even turned it on. I have a laptop that very rarely gets used. Primarily we both use our cellphones for most internet related stuff.

[rachers]

I guess mine could be considered a home computer (I WFH and for myself) but DH uses his company laptop for his own personal use the majority of the time.

[lolalolalola]

Thanks. I can’t access email or any file sharing on my work computer. This morning I wanted to update our budget spreadsheet , research birthday gifts for my dd, and update my health insurance. Not easy on my phone. He wanted to do hobby stuff (buy and sell hockey cards). He definitely has preference for job related stuff! We are not used to having to share!

[joy]

No… my computer is exactly like my phone - mine. I am too private to share. He can borrow mine, if course. But share permanently? No.

[cjcouple]

we have a family computer but neither of us use it much.

I use my work computer and he uses his phone.

[Nonny]

No, not unless there is a pressing reason.

I have a laptop, and my H has a desktop he's uses primarily for gaming, and a ipad he uses for basically everything else (except spreadsheets and our taxes). But he has a piece of software for diagnosing car issues and doing things like resetting the service alerts, which doesn't work on the ipad. So that is installed on my laptop and occasionally he needs it to diagnose/fix cars.

We're both on our devices a lot, so sharing all the time wouldn't work for us.

[honeydew1894]

We have always had separate personal laptops.

[jinkies]

We used to, but for the last five years I have been self employed and need my own computer. He still uses the older laptop that we used to share.

[thebreakfastclub]

Yes. I barely use the laptop my husband and I share. It would be a total waste for me to have my own for the 30 minutes a week I might use it.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Everyone in my household has their own computer. I'm on mine right now, ds is on his, dh and DD aren't home but if they were, they would probably be on theirs too.

[sadie]

We have separate personal computers. He's a gamer in his free time and I'm in a grad program with lots of writing; time spent working on these things overlaps, so it's just easier this way.

[momin2013]

Yes. We each have a work laptop that we use for work, then the shared laptop we use for home stuff, storing photos, booking trips, etc.

[candreco]

We have a family computer that I'm probably the primary user of for volunteer and household stuff. DH and I both have tablets we primarily use for personal stuff, the kids both have laptops.

[Jalapeñomel]

Yes but we also have MacBooks.

[RoxMonster]

No, we each have our own personal computer. I have a MacBook Air and H has a PC because he uses it to play computer games. That’s mainly why he uses his. If he’s just browsing online, he’ll use his iPad. We each have work laptops but they are strictly used for work.

[DotAndBuzz]

No shared computers at all in our household.

H has a work desktop, and a personal desktop (he also games on that one). I have my own laptop, as do each of the girls. It's required for their school to have their own laptop, and they have to bring it every day.

My parents share a desktop, but my dad is really obnoxious with how inefficient he is with using it, so we got my mom her own iPad. That has helped things immensely. Now she just uses that. A couple months ago we got her a keyboard to connect to it, so it's' kind of like her own little laptop, and she's VERY happy with that arrangement.

[sju]

We have a family desktop we share, and H and I have work laptops. Our son is the main user of the family one because he built it for gaming and dual enrollment stuff.  We just share as needed but his college work gets priority. We also have a pandemic MacBook that gets used sometimes. 

[beerlover]

I use my work computer for everything, I don't have a home one anymore. H has both a personal and a work laptop. So we don't share.

[lostrn]

DH has 2 laptops for work plus a personal laptop, DS has one issued by the school and a personal one and I also have a work MacBook and a personal laptop. And I think they have a couple of older laptops around that they play around with, upgrading, trying out new programs, etc.

[turkletsmom]

We each have our own laptop. I prefer to scroll the internet, shop, etc on a laptop vs my phone for the larger screen. Neither of us have a tablet. H does also have a work laptop but he is a Fed, so he's careful not to do anything personal on it.

[macmars45]

H has a work laptop (used only for work) and a desktop PC.

I have a Surface Pro.

[stemmie]

We used to. When we did, school or other productive stuff had priority over entertainment.

These days we each have a laptop-- So much better. I have a tablet as well.

[ssmjlm]

Uh sure if you count the maybe twice a year he might go on the laptop? He uses his phone for everything.

We don’t use work laptops for personal stuff.

[mccallister84]

Until I went back to work we shared a computer no problem because I didn’t use it for much. Now that I am working I needed to buy one (I adjunct - I have a computer at work but since I only need to be on campus 8 hours a week I much prefer to just work at home the rest of the time).

[brooke77]

No, we each have work-issued laptops that the other cannot access. No home/personal computer.

[Roc A Bee]

We honestly just use our phones 99% of the time. We each have work issued laptops that we use to work or I absolutely need to do something that I can’t do on my phone.

[tiki]

H and I always had our own or used work laptops, but as our kid gets older I found I was having to share "my" laptop for her stuff more often than I wanted to. So, when I was laid off this year I bought my work laptop from the company, and it is now the "home computer".

[heygrey]

We share a 9 year old Macbook. Neither of us use a computer for our primary jobs and this one is just fine for the minimal amount of use it gets. H occasionally does a side job where he needs to research/type and he gets priority for that.