What exactly do U mean by "real work"? U don't mean to say that Windoze users or people working in industries other than yours are slackers, do U? ;-) To be fair to everyone, I'd have to say that as far as I know, Windoze can pretty much do what Linux is capable of doing. I don't know much about your industry though, so I would have to reserve comment in your case. The main reasons why I'm using Linux on my primary work machine is, it's more secure, stable, my data doesn't get tied to proprietary software, and it doesn't come with a price tag. However, I still believe that the GUI way is the easier way to do things. But of cos, I do agree that it's also easier to make mistakes this way. valentin antonescu wrote: > Speaking of numbers, I work in bioinformatics (Dana >Farber Cancer Institute) and most of us are using >linux. Macs are very popular because they can be >easily used for taking notes in a conference or >visualizing experimental data for example. But when it >comes to real work, data mining, tool development and >so on, linux/unix are by far the winners. Windows just >doesn't fit in here. MAC has also made big >improvements with their OS getting closer to our >needs. We bought 40 Dell blades recently and we're >planning to have them loaded with a Fedora Core 4 >image. Also most of our workstations are running Core >3 and just a few java developers have still prefered >to stick with XP. While I'm by far one who can call >himself an expert, I do have some experience in this >field. And that means I know just a few good ways of >getting things done and hundreds of wrong ways that >leads to failure. Windows is among those hundreds >wrong ways. > > > for a growing linux community, > Val > > >
