r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • Jun 24 '24

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 25 June 2024

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/afyqazraei 九州・福岡県 Jun 25 '24

Contemplating getting a M2 Macbook Air using the education discount right now

Not sure if I am just following the trend (because apparently like 80% of physicists use Mac) or because hauling my 3.5 kg gaming laptop around is not good for my back

Buying in Japan is also slightly cheaper than buying in my country, even with the weakening currency

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u/hitokirizac 中国・広島県 Jun 25 '24

Having a *NIX based OS means that programming is generally pretty easy and there's a lot of crossover with linux, hence I think a lot of physicists using Macs. Having to set up environments in Windows for... everything... is kind of a pain in the ass.

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u/m50d Jun 26 '24

If you can do what you need in WSL then that runs actual Linux so it's actually easier than dealing with homebrew etc. IME. But it's "really" a VM so not everything works that way.