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.

[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's much better now. Things have mostly settled. It was more of a knee jerk reaction tbh. But it did get more people interested/exposed to Linux for dev machines. Which I think is good for the long run.

We need good options as devs. Mac/Linux are still my gotos for that reason.

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