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I study math at uni and I was shocked realizing all my teachers use ubuntu on both their laptop and work desktop

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (11 children)

I would have thought you need a bunch of fancy software for meteorology (expecting on windows).

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago (10 children)

A lot of advanced analytical tools in biotech at least are developed to be compute cluster compatible, and thus work best on unix-like CLI, e.g. Linux (or Mac with a bit of tinkering)

[–] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And here I was using windows in a VM to run rstudio 😪

Times have changed for sure. (Tho I haven’t used rstudio for many years and it may still be unsupported)

[–] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Rstudio works perfectly, it's electron

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