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[–] [email protected] 272 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wierd, given all the penguins are there

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] z00s 108 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] zeephirus 58 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

what do you think the 17% unknown is?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 weeks ago

BSD/very outdated Linux kernel? XD

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] tordenflesk 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

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

[–] kolorafa 17 points 3 weeks ago

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 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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 11 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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)

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[–] werefreeatlast 57 points 3 weeks ago

Strange because that's where penguins live.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is because of the cold. Apple Laptops dominate because they are (were at the time, anyway), the only screens that would survive those temperatures.

Reference: I designed and led the build of the system used by the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium for managing equipment and rentals for scientists in the arctic back in the 2Ks.

[–] themusicman 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the things I loved about Reddit was the super niche experts dropping into the comment section. I'm so glad Lemmy has this too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Woa.. I have become those whom I cherish. Haha

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

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 55 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] chrash0 14 points 3 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

[–] el_twitto 15 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

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...

[–] Matriks404 9 points 3 weeks ago

Do you really believe that this is a real data?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

Wise Mac users move to Antarctica to prolong the life of the badly cooled devices.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago

You'd think with all those penguins...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The one place where MacBooks having terrible cooling is a feature.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Macbooks would not survive the antarctic outdoors...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] stupidcasey 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Must be a design flaw, maybe you should try a refund.

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[–] eager_eagle 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Scientists using macs connecting to servers and other machines running Linux.

Unknown share is high too; Linux usage on desktop in Antarctica could be as high as 15%.

[–] mynameisigglepiggle 10 points 3 weeks ago

Year of the Antarctic Linux desktop is here

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

With all those tourists... let me guess: Antarctica is facing problems with trash scattered all around?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] evidences 22 points 3 weeks ago

I read the title and was like that can't be right. I know that the South Pole base runs a data center so I've always just assumed that ran Linux. Then I looked at the graph and realized it's desktop usage and it makes sense now.

[–] mesamunefire 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Where do you live that Antarctica is "up"?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Because earth is round, technically Antarctica is above every countries on the planet if you go the long way

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[–] RustyNova 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

comeon .4%!! YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

what those penguins doin n osx

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

What's wrong with these Antarctiti...a..n..s, ahm... Antartcti..n...s....

Anyway, what's wrong with them?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm guessing their scientific software needs that system we shall not name...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Jesus_666 8 points 3 weeks ago
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

at least unix is well represented.

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