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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu (sh.itjust.works)

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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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[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] someguy3 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] wolre 4 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] sep 1 points 6 months ago

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.