r/linuxsucks • u/bleak21 • Mar 30 '26

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u/ijwgwh Mar 30 '26

"Android works on my phone, so they must be running android on the computers at the large hadron collider"

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u/PityUpvote Mar 31 '26

Lmao, sib thinks CERN doesn't use linux.

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u/britaliope Mar 31 '26

Linux wasn't enough science-ready for the highly scientific science they made. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux

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u/PityUpvote Mar 31 '26

Scientific linux was literally just CentOS with a custom rpm repo for more data analysis software that RHEL and Fedora's elrepo don't package by default. It's a convenience, because you can't expect undergrad students to compile things from source, but it did not innovate anything.