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Linux is very common in the physical sciences. Back in the 80s and 90s a Unix box from Sun Microsystems might have been more common, but Linux has been firmly i
by ngoldbaum 11y ago
Linux is very common in the physical sciences. Back in the 80s and 90s a Unix box from Sun Microsystems might have been more common, but Linux has been firmly in place for more than a decade now.
The audience for this survey is also probably somewhat biased, since it was mostly promoted on twitter. That said, none of my colleagues use Windows. I'd say 75% Mac with the rest various flavors of Linux.
- pjmlp 11y agoCurrently I am doing some consulting work in life sciences for well known multinationals. On my specific case, Linux is only used in their HPC clusters and for hosting some DB servers. All researchers use Windows systems as their desktops and control systems for their automated robotic systems.