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Linux only has 0.3% market share in Antarctica unfortunately (lemmy.ca)
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https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/antarctica/#monthly-202308-202408

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 273 points 2 months ago

Wierd, given all the penguins are there

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 57 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I know right?, even though I post this as a joke but I'm genuinely surprised

[-] Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Penguins are OS traitors.

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

The Russian spy penguins all run their own homebrew OS developed by Putin himself.

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 108 points 2 months ago

I wonder how realistic that is; almost all of the science people I've met run Linux

[-] zeephirus@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

what do you think the 17% unknown is?

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 months ago

BSD/very outdated Linux kernel? XD

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[-] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

My guess would be that few of these machines are used for ordinary web-browsing, or not even online.

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[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 76 points 2 months ago

Apple devices make sense - how else are you going to deal with the overheating problems?

[-] kolorafa@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

But you have a lot of cold air to cool it down, and on a side note it makes your room warmer which you might want in that cold region 😅

(But the energy savings is hard to argue with)

[-] HStone32@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

apples still have overheating problems? that was a problem with the first macintosh. All because genius engineer and giant among men Steve Jobs didn't think vents were trendy.

I guess the apples don't fall far from the tree.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

All joking aside, I haven’t had issues with Macs overheating in years, especially with the M chips. Last time I had an issue was when they tried to cram an i9 in a MBP.

Now the Dell laptops we have at work on the other hand, I’ve had to down clock them in bios so they don’t run at 100% or they will literally overheat just running windows. One of my coworkers has to run his upside down or it doesn’t get enough air through the vents to prevent it from auto shutting down due to thermal issues.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Dell

Well there's your problem, I've instituted an IT purchasing policy with a whole section dedicated to banned brands, HP is first and Dell a close second lol (power is nice sometimes lmao)

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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

Strange because that's where penguins live.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 54 points 2 months ago

This is because of the cold. Apple Laptops dominate because they are (were at the time, anyway), the only screens that would survive those temperatures.

Reference: I designed and led the build of the system used by the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium for managing equipment and rentals for scientists in the arctic back in the 2Ks.

[-] themusicman@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

One of the things I loved about Reddit was the super niche experts dropping into the comment section. I'm so glad Lemmy has this too.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 11 points 2 months ago

Woa.. I have become those whom I cherish. Haha

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[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 months ago

I find that interesting. I would expect that many scientists are "nerds" and would lean towards Linux. Also would suspect the ratio of scientist vs population would be much higher.

Guess I've been proven wrong.

[-] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

They are nerds who care about other things than their operating system. That’s like wondering why they also don’t build their own networks down there and self host everything. Those are particular hobbies that don’t interest the vast majority of people, nerd or otherwise.

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 2 months ago

mac was very popular in academia even before osx. It was like the only place you would find macs in the early aughts.

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[-] chrash0@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

i feel like if you’re not sat stationary at a workstation (who is these days) what you want is a laptop that’s good at being a laptop. 99% of the software developers i work with (not a small number) use Macbook Pros. they are well built, have good components, have best in class battery life (we’ll see how things shake out with Qualcomm), and are BSD based and therefore Unix compatible. my servers and gaming/CUDA PC? Linux all day. my laptop? Macbook. i’m not ideological enough to have range anxiety every time i step away from my desk. plus any decent sized org is going to have to administrate these machines, from scientists to administrators, and catering to .4% of your users is not a good ROI if your software vendors struggled for 8 years to get their Windows 98 based specialty sensor software to run on Mac.

that .4% is likely not 0 because they are nerds.

seriously tho if Qualcomm chips can make a Linux book that lasts all day i would happily make the switch

[-] el_twitto@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Long time CentOS and Ubuntu user here. I switched to OSX because of the Apple Silicon speed and battery life. I still spend a lot of my day ssh into various Linux boxes, but running OSX on Apple Silicon has made my laptop use much more enjoyable since I'm not constantly worried about where I'm going to plug in to charge my laptop anymore.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

Statcounter relies on web tracking to try to estimate the usage shares. Theoretically, there could be millions of science PCs running Linux, but one guy is browsing the internet with a Windows PC. Basically, take this data with a massive grain of salt...

[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Do you really believe that this is a real data?

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[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 40 points 2 months ago

Wise Mac users move to Antarctica to prolong the life of the badly cooled devices.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 months ago

You'd think with all those penguins...

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 months ago

The one place where MacBooks having terrible cooling is a feature.

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 months ago

Macbooks would not survive the antarctic outdoors...

[-] androogee@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago

Me either

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Must be a design flaw, maybe you should try a refund.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Scientists using macs connecting to servers and other machines running Linux.

Unknown share is high too; Linux usage on desktop in Antarctica could be as high as 15%.

[-] mynameisigglepiggle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Year of the Antarctic Linux desktop is here

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Maybe they disable tracking because Internet is a premium up there?

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

Where do you live that Antarctica is "up"?

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because earth is round, technically Antarctica is above every countries on the planet if you go the long way

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[-] evidences@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

I read the title and was like that can't be right. I know that the South Pole base runs a data center so I've always just assumed that ran Linux. Then I looked at the graph and realized it's desktop usage and it makes sense now.

[-] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Maybe it's not about the scientists but about the tourists. What kind of people go on vacations in Antarctica?

There are around 66 scientific bases in Antarctica, of which about 37 are occupied year round, the remainder are open during the summer and closed down for winter. There are about 4,000 people through the summer months and about 1,000 overwinter each year.

Tourism visitor numbers in Antarctica have risen to over 100,000 a year

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 8 points 2 months ago

With all those tourists... let me guess: Antarctica is facing problems with trash scattered all around?

[-] vovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

You mean apple products?

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[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

At least it's not windows, amirite?

Sitcom laugh track

Joke aside, this still make feel bad for spoofing my user agent to the classic chrome windows combo...

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[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 12 points 2 months ago

So out of the 345 computers in Antarctica, one is Linux.

[-] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 12 points 2 months ago

comeon .4%!! YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

That includes me. Or at least my geospoofed location for the sake of google search (when I need to use it - I'd rather use DDG but... meh), so Google stops trying to sell me local shit.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

I'm guessing their scientific software needs that system we shall not name...

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[-] clot27@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

what those penguins doin n osx

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago

What's wrong with these Antarctiti...a..n..s, ahm... Antartcti..n...s....

Anyway, what's wrong with them?

[-] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Got to speak with a guy who was stationed there over the winter. He said of the ~15 or so winter staff it was mostly engineering types, with the majority of the scientists there just in the summer months. Seemed like a pretty cool (heh) gig, but not too surprising that there's a dearth of linux machines imo.

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