His Excellency Aethien wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
Sir Xsarus wrote:
I use too many tools that only really work in Windows to switch off.
Same here, most of my stuff for work only runs in windows. My old job did some stuff in linux, it was okay.
I thought Linux was a lot bigger in scientific circles so I figured you'd use some customized version or something at your job.
Yeah, that's not uncommon. Most of the labs that routinely write software have a version that runs in linux in their lab. There's just seems to be so much more a trained person can do with it.
The problem is that if you want anyone else to use your tool it has to be windows friendly. So you end up having to maintain two versions of the program, one for windows and one for linux (and other platforms as well sometimes). Unless you're a large lab and can benefit from hiring dedicated computer people to maintain a linux server and write customized software or something you'll just cut your costs and settle for windows only.
Edited, Jun 9th 2014 10:46am by someproteinguy
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