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@cho-uc Yeah I think a lot of people dream of a paradigm shifting breakthrough that revolutionises physics as we know it. I'd be quite happy with a teaching position as long as there was an opportunity to conduct some research too.
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Just to brag a bit.
At the company I work for, you have free choice of OS and between Dell and Apple. At least if you're a dev or admin.
If you want to use Linux or are Windows, you get a Dell laptop (Latitude/Precision/XPS). Else you get a MB. And obviously, you got a local admin/root account and no corporate spyware or domain-join. -
@metamourge in my final interview here they asked what my preferred system was and winced when I said Windows or Linux. Still getting there with Linux a bit. I can use a Mac, I'd just prefer not to. I was told "We really use Macs here."
It was only after the interview I realised the MD was using a Dell at the time and on my first day I noted that only the dev team and one sales guy uses a Mac. Everyone else has a Dell... -
I started on a beefy windows machine at my job. You allocate half of your resources to WSL2. Windows manages a bunch of the linux distro so that you have to figure out how to manipulate windows into updating your hosts file. And you have to modify the run commands on web browsers to preview things. It was a ducking nightmare. I make software that runs in linux containers and some react UI.
I wanted linux. I got a Mac. Literally anything but Windows is better.
Short term: Become familiar and independent enough to choose my own machine and software to work with. Right now it's "Here's your MBP, we've already installed the stuff that the rest of us use". If I try and switch to something else and I run into a problem, I'm on my own.
Mid term: Like a lot of you it seems, I'd love to have my own setup. Either have my own company or partner with some friends/family. Whatever lets me do the work I want, build the things I want, and gives me a bit more freedom outside of work. Perhaps a little side-hustle to help with finances.
Long term: I'd love to return to my studies. I don't think I'll ever stop coding, it scratches an itch, a need to make something out of nothing, but I'd love to pursue a career in physics.
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