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I'm a bioinformatician/data scientist and I'd really love to run Ubuntu on my laptop but I have to use Windows, company policy. Tbh I'd miss Teams and Outlook

I'm a bioinformatician/data scientist and I'd really love to run Ubuntu on my laptop but I have to use Windows, company policy. Tbh I'd miss Teams and Outlook (though both are well supported in the browser), I avoid Excel like the plaque anyway because it messes with gene names (sept1 anyone?) and Word/PowerPoint is also ok in the cloud (though the latter gets tedious with animations and complex slides I find).

agumonkey 8y ago
beside excel, what other reasons are there for windows usage ? some old contract ?
- teekert 8y ago
  It a really large company (>100.000 employees worldwide). Support simply says no (or does not respond). I use a lot of WSL and VMs and our cluster machines.
  - agumonkey 8y ago
    aight scale reasons.. understandable
  - jazoom 8y ago
    Wow that's a lot of licensing cost for Windows.
Scarbutt 8y ago
What is your Excel replacement?
- teekert 8y ago
  Python 3 Pandas in Jupyter-lab mostly. But before that I used Origin (it's a a paid product and does not really scale).