This is why scientists shouldn’t use Windows. Well, nobody should, but relevant to the post, this is why scientists shouldn’t.
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Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
janus2@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
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…!)
Shampiss@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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
Lordbaum@mander.xyz 7 months ago
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.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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)?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.)
Zoot@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Yes, but atleast you can shooter 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)
10_0@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
POV: devs develop for the most common OS and people use what works with little troubleshooting
ftbd@feddit.org 7 months ago
You guys are using windows?
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, because the software for all the instruments is only available for Windows.
ftbd@feddit.org 7 months ago
My condolences.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
My person you can run windows as a virtual machine under Linux.
Purox@feddit.org 7 months ago
Theoretical physicist here: the hole chair uses Linux, except for two persons that use MacOS
Frogodendron@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Almost everyone I know in chemistry. Almost no one I know in physics. Things are weird that way.
where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.
janus2@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
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
Trollception@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
When’s the last time a Windows update took more than 30 minutes? It takes about the same time to update all the packages on my FreeNAS box as it does to install windows
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Obviously their grands only paid for SATA hard drives and a 150kbps network bandwidth.
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
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 while using it and losing all the data was actually, in fact, undesirable and unintended behavior.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not a scientist but that’s pretty much how it goes for me.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 7 months ago
Who put the camera In my cubicle?
tdawg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This applies to software dev too. Except instead of windows updates it’s debugging Nvidia drivers on Linux
Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Also the chart is same for after lunch