I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu
from VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works to linux@lemmy.ml on 27 Jun 22:18
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from VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works to linux@lemmy.ml on 27 Jun 22:18
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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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Why?
Why what?
Why is there something instead of nothing
Are you speaking about you ?
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When I look at my gut, I ask myself the same question đ
Well Liebniz said itâs because of a necessary being bearing the reason for its existence within itself, if that helps.
No, because itâs circular logic. Thereâs no reason for a necessary being to exist before it does, and no evidence that one does in the real world.
It is, and thatâs inherent in the problem under consideration, the problem of the âuncaused causedâ or the âfirst moverâ. Logic can either be A) circular or B) not-circular. Any not-circular logic must explain each element by referring to a prior, but then youâve got an infinite regress. So youâre trapped in a dilemma: do you want the circular logic or the infinite regress? Liebnizâs choice was to say that God was inherently existent, like when Lao Tzu said éæł èȘç¶
Correct. It is necessary: it is self-causing. It does not stand upon a âreasonâ, unlike everything else in conditioned existence.
Youâre assuming it is subject to the laws of linear time and causation, and point out how that assumption leads to a contradiction. But Liebnizâs God is not subject to the laws of linear time and causation. Which is the whole point of positing it: because if it were subject to those laws: infinite regress.
Well the world exists, so all this existence must have some cause. That was the starting point of the conversation: Why is there something instead of nothing?
My gut is circular, thatâs bullying đ€Ł
Why were you shocked? Why this post? What is this about?
Because usually very few people use Linux, especially in public sector. And here it was all of my teachers, not just one
why ask why, try bud dry
Duff Life for me, thanks.
What about good ole Big Top Beer at my local Raytown market
Probably because Windows is best suited for games and cookie-cutter corporate applications while basically every supercomputer, cluster, etc. runs Linux. Professors arenât usually running games or cookie-cutter business software so why not? If your one-off, experimental research code is going to ultimately be run on a more powerful system running Linux, why write it on Windows and waste time debugging once you try to run it for real?
But like you could run games on Linux. protondb.com
because Ubuntu has been fantastic for a long time now
Bold of you to assume Ubuntu was a recent version.
A lot of my professors of meteorology (and IT courses, of course) also use either Ubuntu or Kubuntu! Love to see it
Yeah I was scared they were into proprietary licenses
I would have thought you need a bunch of fancy software for meteorology (expecting on windows).
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)
Iâm interested but donât know enough to understand that answer.
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.
Would meteorologists be writing that stuff or just using it? I would have thought using, but not programming.
Not sure. Like any field I suspect thereâs specialties including people who do research/modeling vs consuming that data and advising based on it.
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.
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.
If stuff is designed for big servers that run Linux, itâs easier to get it to run on a desktop PC if the PC runs Linux too because then itâs the same thing except much less powerful.
And here I was using windows in a VM to run rstudio đȘ
Times have changed for sure. (Tho I havenât used rstudio for many years and it may still be unsupported)
Rstudio works perfectly, itâs electron
True. HPC definitely plays a big role in the field, and essentially all compute clusters run some sort of Linux distro. Even though clients that can also be run locally then often have Windows binaries too, Iâd say software support on Linux is at least as good as on Windows, probably a bit better.
not SunOS then ):
Cool story
I remember having my mind blown in college when I saw a Mac Pro tower running Ubuntu in a lab.
Why? It was an Intel Mac. They can even boot windows.
At one point I triple booted my laptop with Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OSX mostly just to prove I could. Weird times, a lot has changed since then.
I did the same on a PC I built like 10 years ago just because âwhy not?â đ€Ł
Just seemed odd to pay your way into the Apple ecosystem just to wipe it and install Ubuntu
Oh, that. Yes. I canât fathom using Apple hardware outside of the Apple ecosystem unless that machine if EOL. But never for windows haha.
Itâs really nice hardware. And for some segments of the market, itâs not even particularly expensive compared to alternatives of similar build quality.
Yeah I think they needed horsepower to run some sophisticated models in Matlab, and Apple had a killer educational discount.
Not only did my math master's thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn't need.
Chad
I set up Alpine to read my Gmail last summer, and while the nostalgia hit was nice, the browser version was more responsive and useful, cap I went back to that.
plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)
Elm or mutt? Say pine and Iâll die
I think it was pine, actually, but it was over 10 years ago so I can't say for sure.
my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.
I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) guiâs people used for icq messaging though.
Wait what? Telnet? I am guessing cybersecurity is not one of the classes available at your school.
it mightâve been ssh i canât really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one. IIRC donât think either service was accesible via the internet though.
TIL that plain TeX is a thing.
itâs kinda the fire-and-forget of OSes. you just press the update/upgrade button when the unattended-upgrade didnât catch all and it just works for free and forever.
So it has auto updates enabled? Windows, macOS and a ton of other Linux distros do that as well.
I think itâs moreso that Ubuntu is (one of the) most used desktop Linux OSes, so a lot of corporations and individuals who like to play safe just go with that
From my perspective, if used for work, automatic security updates should be mandatory. Linux is damn impressive with live patch. With thousands or even tens of thousands of endpoints, itâs negligent to not patch.
Features? Donât care. But security updates are essential in a large organisation.
The worst part of the Linux fan base is the users who hate forced updates, and also donât believe in AV. Ok on your home network thatâs not very risky compared to a corp network with a million student and staff personal information often with byo devices only a network segment away and APT groups targeting you because they know your reputation is worth something to ransom.
I agree, this doesnât explain why Ubuntu would be any better than other OSes that also auto update by defaultâŠ
They probably have been using it for years, and for the last more then a decade Iâve been using Ubuntu as my main Linux distribution since I have work to do and Iâll get to doing work faster in ubuntu than any other distribution.
Why did I start with Ubuntu? 10+ years ago Ubuntu was lightyears ahead for community support for issues. Again, I had work to do, I wasnât hobbyist playing âfuck windowsâ.
In fact look at things like ROS where you can get going with âapt install ros-noetic-desktopâ and now you can build your robotics stuff instantly. Every dependency to start and all the other tooling is there too. Sure a bunch of people would now say âuse nixâ but my autonomous robotics project doesnât care I am trying to get lidar, camera, motors, and SLAM algorithms to work. I donât want to care or think about compiling ROS for some arch distribution.
I wonât say I donât dabble with other distributions but if Iâve got work to do, Iâm going to use the tools I already know better than the back of my hand. And at the time, when selecting these tools, Ubuntu had it answered and is stable enough to have been unchanging for basically a decade.
Oh and if I needed to, I could pay and get support so the CEO can hear that risk is gone too (despite almost every other vendor we pay never actually resolving a issue before we find and fix it⊠Though I do like also being able to say âwe have raised a ticket with vendor x and am waiting on a replyâ).
I think your first point is the main reason Ubuntu has its popularity to thank for; 10-15 years ago it was (one of) the best desktop Linux OSes, people used to its workflow will continue using it as thereâs no imminent reason to switch to whatever new thing just came out
Inertia is just a sign of maturity. Itâs fine. Nothing wrong with it. Especially when the new stuff is happening along side it. In 10 years there may be people asking why youâre using arch or nix, when whatever new thing is superior. But itâll just be proof that nix can run in production for 10+ years.
Most organizations care about maintaining document compatibility, especially formatting, and that usually means Office365. Microsoft is notorious for publishing a standard and then ignoring their own standard, making it exceedingly difficult to use other office suites.
Iâve heard OnlyOffice does the best at maintaining compatibility.
Sorry to clarify: updates come as security or as feature updates. If Iâve already got a standard operating environment (SOE) with all the features I/staff need to do work, I donât need new features.
I then have to watch cves with my cve trackers to know when software updates are needed and all devices with those software get updated and the SOE is updated.
I can go on a rant about how bad the Linux has recently made my life as someoneâs policy is that any Linux bug might be a security vulnerability and therefore I now have infinite noise in my cve feed, which in turn is making decisions on how to mitigate security issues hard, but that is beyond this discussion.
So in short Iâm only talking about when you update, updating only security fixes, not the software and features. Live patching security vulnerabilities is pretty much free low effort, low impact, and in my personal opinion, absolutely critical. But software features patching can be disruptive, leaves little to be gained, and really only should be driven for a request to need that feature at which point it would also include an update to the SOE.
You think it is the most used because it is the most used? There must be a reason for that!
It was one of the first polished desktop Linux systems, even though itâs enshittified recently it holds its popularity due to its long-standing status as âTHE Linux desktopâ
First of all, windows and macOS are not for free. They cost extra money, sometimes hidden in the PC cost when pre-installed. When they do a major update, like Win10 to 11, you are at their mercy, if your license can be used to upgrade. Often it can, but sometimes your PC is not âWindows 11 readyâ or so and then you get updates for your old system for a few more years until they drop you like a hot potato and throw you to the malware wolves.
Additionally, in Windows the automatic updates are just for the OS itself and some apps from its store. A few apps like Chrome and FF install their own extra update service on top. A lot of other programs check for updates individually or some not at all and often you have to download and run their installer for every update. Idk how it is in macOS tho. Havenât used it in years.
Yes, a ton of other Linux distros also have background unattended-upgrade or similar. However, the people who choose Ubuntu over those are usually looking for a quick solution that almost always just installs without problems. They usyally donât have time or patience for any complications, however small. So they choose the fire-and-forget Linux and additionally have greater chances to find a fix or help in the super rare case it doesnât work, because the bigger user base increases the likelyhood someone else is familiar or has infos regarding that exotic issue.
macOS is mostly the same as Windows in terms of updating Applications.
The App Store is more prevalent than Microsoft Store, but you can still download an executable for most programs from the browser. Installing is a bit different since you drop the file into the app folder instead of actually having an installation executable.
Then there is homebrew, which is an unofficial package manager, which I am using for everything, if available (which is almost all the time)
I started using Ubuntu because of Radio Astronomy stuff.
I have also seen some desktops of my hospital labs using Ubuntu. Must say, amidst all the win7 monitors, that looked so sexyâŠ
Windows 7 isâŠugly so I understand. What I was shocked was they nearly all used it, not just a few
I loved it when it came out.
Idk, I honestly like the windows 7 look. But using it after security updates have been stopped is just plain stupid.
Windows 7, first released in 2009, now well out of the most extended of support. Glad to see security of medical records is a top priority.
Donât worry, Ubuntu was probably Lucid. đ€
Medical environments are notorious for inept tech skills and slow technology adoption.
It's probably like the US military and their missile silos still using floppy disks. Better to keep a time-tested and very familiar system running a critical operation than a new one with a bunch of unknowns. Or like when you go to the bank, and the screen the teller is looking at is just a front end going through a dozen different layers with COBOL code written by long dead or retired people on a mainframe at the other end.
Us end users with very low risk can afford to continuously live on the bleeding edge.
Just a note, the US military completed the phase-out of floppy disks in 2019.
Iâm running the win 7 wallpaper on my MacBook currently, lol
Itâs outrageous! You must start a crusade to make them see the error of their ways and start using Arch!
Should I ?
You must! The Penguin demands it!
No
please donât
Theyâre teachers, they already have a full time job, they donât need a side job of syadminning their own laptops.
Iâm a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. đ
me too!
I donât get how people manage to spend so much time keeping arch running. I used it on my laptop for a few years and it just worked?? It was like the easiest to maintain distribution Iâve used other than immutable ones. The only real problems I ever had were accidentally interrupting pacman during a kernel update and not having a kernel, but that was always a like 2 minute fix
I teach. I use Arch for my school laptop.
Thank you for your service â€ïž
Most of my teachers either used MacOS or Ubuntu very few times I saw Windows but again my studies were in computer science so a bit of a bias.
I would assume they would be busy solving Integrals not this