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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 then crashing while using it and losing all the data was actually, in fact, undesirable and unintended behavior.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Obviously their science grands only paid for SATA hard drives and a 150kbps network bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Who put the camera In my cubicle?

[+] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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…)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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)?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The reason is that M$ pays the manufacturer to put their crapware on it

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month 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...!)

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This applies to software dev too. Except instead of windows updates it's debugging Nvidia drivers on Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Also the chart is same for after lunch

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'm not a scientist but that's pretty much how it goes for me.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You guys are using windows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Almost everyone I know in chemistry. Almost no one I know in physics. Things are weird that way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Theoretical physicist here: the hole chair uses Linux, except for two persons that use MacOS

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, because the software for all the instruments is only available for Windows.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

My condolences.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My person you can run windows as a virtual machine under Linux.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it alright to go around wiping the OS off of other people's computers?

is what your comment reads like to me.

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If you're cold they're cold pug that random flashdrive from the ground out side into the nearest computer.