How many /sci/ people use Linux? Why?

>>7772024

so much easier to do work outside of enterprise thanks to the powerful terminal and allowing exposure to powerful but ugly tools.

ok, let's start counting

1

Why? I didn't like the design of Windows 8, that's when I switched.

>>7772024
I use windows 7 on my desktop.
xubuntu on my laptop.

its free.
does what I need for school.
windows 8 and 10 are too annoying.
terminal is bullshit though, only person I see ever "needing" it is sysadmins/similar, big emphasis on the quotes.

>>7772068
Terminal is usually a lot more convenient, flexible, scriptable and faster to work with

>>7772068
The terminal is an incredibly powerful and flexible tool but it has a big learning curve. Installing and managing the software on your system is easier on most linux distributions through cli package managers than it is on Windows or OS X.

I dualboot Windows 10 and Fedora on my laptop. Once I find a way to make Fedora have better battery life than Windows, I'm gonna switch to just Fedora with Windows in a VM.

Well i do, it's better for school than Windows and free

>>7772024
I use to run on it on email and web servers I had. But I got rid of those.

I have Debian on my laptop. It has all the functionality I need, and tons of scientific software available for free.

Programming is also much, much easier. You don't need an 8GB VS installation or a compiler like MinGW or Visual C++ to write software easily, because GNU/Linux is integrated well with the GNU Compiler Collection. Making a program is easy as:

(application to open in) hello.cpp
(type program and save)
make hello
./hello

And you just ran your first executable program. You can move it to your bin to execute it like any other program without specifying the directory.

There are also far more options for customization and hardware compatibility than Windows.

I don't see a reason NOT to use Linux unless required by an employer or you play computer games that are incompatible.

>>7772024
I use Mac

>>7772024
1.) core tools
2.) bash
3.) supercomputer runs linux also, so why bother doing something different
4.) everyone else uses it

A difficult question to answer would be - why use something else?

>>7772024
To program. Used to do OSdev for fun not a csfag to, but lately i haven't found time, wel it's not that i don't have any time, it's just i enjoy doing other things now

I do.
>Why?
Because it's designed to do what I want. As opposed to what some corporation wants.
Its technical superiority is a nice bonus, but ultimately not the main reason.

Arch on my laptop for programming (compiling native code) and haxxing.

Win 10 on my desktop for everything else.

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I use Linux because I really like emacs and can use it for almost everything, and because I have no need to use Microsoft software.

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I use linux because it's free as in beer, i.e. I can buy beer with the money saved from paying for software.

It also runs well on whatever $300 laptop I pick up, enabling further beer consumption.

I usually run Debian or Fedora.

I use linux on a laptop because I need(ed) it for gromacs.

Ubuntu gnome.

Programming for labs is easier

Major in EE and Applied Math

>>7772140
A reasonable, but expensive, alternative

>>7772024
I use Linux when my job pays me to use Linux.
I use Windows when my job pays me to use Windows.
I use OS X when my job pays me to use OS X.

All of them have their pros and con. Anybody who goes around shouting "My OS is the best!" is a easily-brainwashed moron.

>>7772043
Pretty much this

EE student and pretty much all my software runs fine on xubuntu plus I prefer it for programming and stuff

>>7772024
The Android operating system runs on the Linux kernel and is thus arguably a Linux.

So everybody with an Android phone, depending on how loosely we're defining Linux.

>>7772024
I've been using linux for over 10 years now. I have a laptop with Windows 7 on it but all I use it for is Steam games which is another way of saying I never use it because I never have time for games any more.

The biggest benefits are that LaTeX is easier to use and manage. It's easier to maintain and keep software updated. Programming is also far easier on linux (I'm not even sure if it's possible to program in theorem provers and academic languages on Windows or OSX).

I use Arch linux. For package management I handle most things through Pacman (arch's package manager) but for anything Haskell, GHC, or Agda related I use the Nix package manager (It's a functional package manager, it pretty much makes Cabal hell in-existent and everything just werks). My window manager is XFCE4 with Compton for compositing.

If NixOS (a linux variant built around the Nix package manager) had a larger community I would consider switching to it. However I like how simple everything is in Arch (don't listen to the pretentious douchebags from /g/ who say Arch is harder).

>>7772140
I'm a vegetarian

>>7772024
Debian and Slackware.

Easy and customizable.

I do too, mostly Debian, sometimes I switch to Fedora just for fun.

>why?

Customizable, full of powerful tools, more secure.

install gentoo

>>7772024
Started with Xubuntu, used Debian and Ubuntu for a while and recently switched to Arch Linux.
There are various reason that led me to use GNU/Linux instead of Windows or MacOS, for example:
- it's free (both as in free beer and free speech)
- it's much more customizable
- it lets me actually decide what I want to do with my machine
- it has a much more usable cli and it's easier to automate tasks
- it takes up less disk space for the same functionalities
- etc.

Are there any linux programs that might be useful for synthetic organic chemistry, like NMR simulators and structure drawing?

>>7772248
same. gnome is used a lot for our fmri data processing and is a whole hell of a lot easier for labs.

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GNU/Linux on laptop and desktop
Android/Linux on phone
Linux on ereader

>>7775284
Jmol