One thing I truly appreciate with Macbooks is their physical shell. industrial? They have good hardware and are priced well though. What sort of machine do you use? I've looked at Lenovo Thinkpads as an alternative to a mac, but they're rather, shall I say. I'm not a fan of Windows, and if not necessary for certain compatabilities, I would only run linux. Some of our laboratory instruments are much easier to talk to through the Windows software provided by the vendors. My machine is dual boot with Kubuntu (a linux implementation) and Windows.
And this extends to a sizeable community of people who create various programs.īut when it all comes down to it, the real draw of Linux is Wumpus.
The guy who has likely done a bunch of similar things to the thing you want to try. And also, to go-along to be able to borrow software from the guy at the next desk. So there is some pressure to go-along to get-along. Lots of other physics types are Linux oriented. If you are prepared to spend the time to get good at Linux then many of these things are easier in Linux than in other systems.Īlso, there is a cultural issue. They want to write little programs to do odd things from see how much is left in the vending machine to sending their sweetie a valentine.
They want to use them for data collection systems and control experiments with them. So if it requires spending a couple hundred hours to learn to make a system perform correctly, the typical physics department will prefer to toss their grad-student-indentured-servants at it rather than spend any money on it.Īlso, grad students tend to want to do unusual things with computers. Whereas, a grad student's time is often viewed as disposable, often by both the grad student and the physics department. And the money they do have always has many different demands. Most grad students have not got much money.
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