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Blisterexe ,

Wierd, given all the penguins are there

ColdWater OP , (edited )
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

I know right?, even though I post this as a joke but I’m genuinely surprised

lvxferre ,
@lvxferre@mander.xyz avatar

That includes me. Or at least my geospoofed location for the sake of google search (when I need to use it - I’d rather use DDG but… meh), so Google stops trying to sell me local shit.

ironhydroxide ,

I find that interesting. I would expect that many scientists are “nerds” and would lean towards Linux. Also would suspect the ratio of scientist vs population would be much higher.

Guess I’ve been proven wrong.

almar_quigley ,

They are nerds who care about other things than their operating system. That’s like wondering why they also don’t build their own networks down there and self host everything. Those are particular hobbies that don’t interest the vast majority of people, nerd or otherwise.

HubertManne ,

mac was very popular in academia even before osx. It was like the only place you would find macs in the early aughts.

chrash0 ,

i feel like if you’re not sat stationary at a workstation (who is these days) what you want is a laptop that’s good at being a laptop. 99% of the software developers i work with (not a small number) use Macbook Pros. they are well built, have good components, have best in class battery life (we’ll see how things shake out with Qualcomm), and are BSD based and therefore Unix compatible. my servers and gaming/CUDA PC? Linux all day. my laptop? Macbook. i’m not ideological enough to have range anxiety every time i step away from my desk. plus any decent sized org is going to have to administrate these machines, from scientists to administrators, and catering to .4% of your users is not a good ROI if your software vendors struggled for 8 years to get their Windows 98 based specialty sensor software to run on Mac.

that .4% is likely not 0 because they are nerds.

seriously tho if Qualcomm chips can make a Linux book that lasts all day i would happily make the switch

el_twitto ,

Long time CentOS and Ubuntu user here. I switched to OSX because of the Apple Silicon speed and battery life. I still spend a lot of my day ssh into various Linux boxes, but running OSX on Apple Silicon has made my laptop use much more enjoyable since I’m not constantly worried about where I’m going to plug in to charge my laptop anymore.

mesamunefire ,

I agree quite a bit. One thing to note is ever since the m1-3 chips and breakage with brew, my local circle is going other machines. I know brew eventually fixed things but some packages never got updated/broke permanently.

chrash0 ,

i haven’t personally had trouble with that since early 2023, but it depends on your dependencies

Matriks404 ,

Do you really believe that this is a real data?

30p87 , (edited )
@30p87@feddit.org avatar

They use Apple. And then bitch that its update process is so bad, it can’t restart where it left off when the connection breaks, it can’t use caches/mirrors properly, blabla. Bitch, don’t use it then.

Ephera ,

Statcounter relies on web tracking to try to estimate the usage shares. Theoretically, there could be millions of science PCs running Linux, but one guy is browsing the internet with a Windows PC. Basically, take this data with a massive grain of salt…

savvywolf ,
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

Apple devices make sense - how else are you going to deal with the overheating problems?

kolorafa ,

But you have a lot of cold air to cool it down, and on a side note it makes your room warmer which you might want in that cold region 😅

(But the energy savings is hard to argue with)

HStone32 ,

apples still have overheating problems? that was a problem with the first macintosh. All because genius engineer and giant among men Steve Jobs didn’t think vents were trendy.

I guess the apples don’t fall far from the tree.

thejml ,

All joking aside, I haven’t had issues with Macs overheating in years, especially with the M chips. Last time I had an issue was when they tried to cram an i9 in a MBP.

Now the Dell laptops we have at work on the other hand, I’ve had to down clock them in bios so they don’t run at 100% or they will literally overheat just running windows. One of my coworkers has to run his upside down or it doesn’t get enough air through the vents to prevent it from auto shutting down due to thermal issues.

cm0002 ,

Dell

Well there’s your problem, I’ve instituted an IT purchasing policy with a whole section dedicated to banned brands, HP is first and Dell a close second lol (power is nice sometimes lmao)

RustyNova ,

At least it’s not windows, amirite?

Sitcom laugh track

Joke aside, this still make feel bad for spoofing my user agent to the classic chrome windows combo…

explodicle ,

They can handle the truth once they start serving us the same pages.

2001aCentenaryofFederation ,

Noooooooo

chottomatte ,
@chottomatte@lemdro.id avatar

I’m not sure but maybe they use specific programs that aren’t available on Linux and the alternatives aren’t enough ( or even don’t exist )

BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place avatar

So out of the 345 computers in Antarctica, one is Linux.

HubertManne ,

at least unix is well represented.

z00s ,

I wonder how realistic that is; almost all of the science people I’ve met run Linux

zeephirus ,

what do you think the 17% unknown is?

ColdWater OP ,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

BSD/very outdated Linux kernel? XD

swab148 ,
@swab148@lemm.ee avatar

TempleOS

tordenflesk ,

My guess would be that few of these machines are used for ordinary web-browsing, or not even online.

Sylence , (edited )
@Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Got to speak with a guy who was stationed there over the winter. He said of the ~15 or so winter staff it was mostly engineering types, with the majority of the scientists there just in the summer months. Seemed like a pretty cool (heh) gig, but not too surprising that there’s a dearth of linux machines imo.

cmgvd3lw ,

They probably use some toughened laptop running windows like this one.

mesamunefire ,

Maybe they disable tracking because Internet is a premium up there?

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