Am I too old to know these characters or too young?

Edit: Too old it seems.

Without knowing anything about this show, I'm guessing the Shirley Temple looking girl is friendly and normie and the chess piece in the middle is old and nutty? Those are my two.

In the latest episode we get to see the outright answer for this for Cain / Kinger

As you can see, the circus (managed by Cain the AI) uses an oldschool Windows OS, looks to be 98?

Kinger then uses CMD to ssh into some bash shell, I dunno if we get much view of what kind of OS it is, but it appears to be possibly a systemd flavor?

We also get to see that the circus was programmed in Lisp in the latest 90s, which sounds about right

Based on what we know about the laws of how the circus works, these indicate a manifestation of how these 2 characters mentally work with OSes.

Cain works in windows 98.

Kinger on the other hand visualizes stuff with linux!

Zooble using arch is hella accurate

according to this meme my favorite uses my favorite yayyyy

There's no way in hell Cain uses Gentoo. I mean he's a control freak so it would track to a certain extent but he's a very busy creature and he does not have time to wait for the linux kernel to recompile while he's got adventures to build. Honestly I'd put him on Mac (because he's a creative) or maybe NixOS (for control without gentoo's eternal rebuild cycles)

Where fedora at?

Jax is edgy enough to say that sure he would use kali or something like that lol.

I see you've lumped me in with the NixOS crowd and I take great offense to this

While Pomni is the hesitant type from time to time, she is also energic and not afraid of using her brain. So I think something like Fedora is more fitting for her. Gets the job done while allowing tinkering.

Mint on the other hand I would assign to Gangle. Calm and hard to break.

kinger might also be able to use fedora or arch