This applies to software dev too. Except instead of windows updates it's debugging Nvidia drivers on Linux
Also the chart is same for after lunch
This is why scientists shouldn't use Windows. Well, nobody should, but relevant to the post, this is why scientists shouldn't.
we used Macs at my last lab
I hated them because I'm a Linux nerd but at least they were reliable
(I suppose if my research PC ran Linux I'd spend all my time configuring it instead of researching...!)
Updating my computers from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 was a whole day process. It doesn’t help that the upgrade tool requires you to press enter every so often.
(Yeah yeah I should try other distros. I’ll play with other distros when I’m not spending my time as pictured in the meme.)
(To be clear this is on a couple computer I personally own. The ones the lab owns are on Ubuntu 20.04 if I’m lucky…)
Yes, but atleast you can choose when you want to do that, you clan plan ahead and block out a day specifically for just updating.
Can't say the same about a windows update. (Sometimes you can put it off till a certain date, if you catch it)
Why shouldn't people use windows?
You can't expect the average person to be tech savvy enough to use Linux and most people cannot afford a Mac. Especially in developing countries.
Windows is the best OS for the average person. Just not for advanced users such as researchers
You don't need to be tech savvy to use Linux there are more than enough distros where you need as much knowledge as you need to use windows I wouldn't call everybody how owns a steam deck a tech savvy person. The only user friendly advantage is that Windows comes for some reason preinstalled on almost every device. If this weren't the case and the average consumers had a choice the picture would be very different.
The reason is that M$ pays the manufacturer to put their crapware on it
You can't expect the average person to be tech savvy enough to use Linux
I don't understand. They are tech savvy enough to use Windows tho (and not be used by it)?
You guys are using windows?
Yeah, because the software for all the instruments is only available for Windows.
My condolences.
My person you can run windows as a virtual machine under Linux.
Sure, but I highly doubt they are making policy where they work. I don't think most employers would be happy about some random researcher not only plugging in a flash drive from home, but using it to install unapproved software (a full OS at that).
If you're cold they're cold pug that random flashdrive from the ground out side into the nearest computer.
Is it alright to go around wiping the OS off of other people's computers?
To be clear: each machine generally needs a computer to be permanently plugged into it. Generally the computer belongs to the university. You're not plugging in your own personal laptop into the machine. Saying to install Linux on these computers is essentially tampering with the university's electronics and IT will be very unhappy that you did that.
Theoretical physicist here: the hole chair uses Linux, except for two persons that use MacOS
Almost everyone I know in chemistry. Almost no one I know in physics. Things are weird that way.
Jeez, you fools. How about rolling into the lab at 11, drinking coffee till 11:30, have at most half an hour to reminiscue about yesterday's failures, while looking at results well-knowing they're unsalvageable, and then going for lunch with the crew?
If you start your day at 8:30, you misunderstood that it's not your paycheck that makes a PhD great.
I rarely arrived at the lab before 10am as an undergrad intern. (And usually stayed until 7–8pm because I goofed around too much and it took forever to get all the cells taken care of 🫠)
Flexible schedules are a luxury I miss dearly
When's the last time a Windows update took more than 30 minutes? It takes about the same time to update my FreeNAS box as it does to install windows/upgrade to a new version
Obviously their science grands only paid for SATA hard drives and a 150kbps network bandwidth.
Even in 2024, so many pcs people regularly use are utter shite. It's gotten to the point where people just expect it to take 5 seconds for the ui to respond to anything and consider it an unchangeable fact of life.
It took a lot of effort the other day to convince a boomer that Edge freezing then crashing while using it and losing all the data was actually, in fact, undesirable and unintended behavior.
I'm not a scientist but that's pretty much how it goes for me.
Who put the camera In my cubicle?
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