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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      4 months ago

      If stuff is designed for big servers that run Linux, it’s easier to get it to run on a desktop PC if the PC runs Linux too because then it’s the same thing except much less powerful.

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      Code and snippets to analyze data work well when you can send chunks of it to multiple servers (think analyzing the effect of weather patterns).

      Since a lot of that stuff is running on Linux (similar to cloud computing) it makes sense that people that write function/scripts/utilities would already be comfortable in that environment and use it as their daily driver.

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        Would meteorologists be writing that stuff or just using it? I would have thought using, but not programming.

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          Not sure. Like any field I suspect there’s specialties including people who do research/modeling vs consuming that data and advising based on it.

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            They certainly do, at least to an extent. In many fields where you have to work with a lot of data people will use R or Python to handle/transform/perform calculations.

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          If you compare with excel or similar. They do not write excel the program. But there is a lot of tinkering with algorithms and functions to get the wanted results.