• @treesquid
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    2711 months ago

    Do you know any Linux users that aren’t IT professionals? If I know any, it’s because they’re the children of IT professionals

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      2011 months ago

      I’ve been using GNU+Linux since 9th grade because that’s when I got a computer. My parents have absolutely nothing to do with computers. What got me there was simple lack of understanding. I barely knew what OS was, but I needed to get one. And soon after, I misunderstood Windows as another distribution, so I went with Linux Mint.

      I just had good luck.

      • @uisOP
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        511 months ago

        Since daycare. My dad had to do with computers.

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 months ago

      I’m an actuarie and a Linux user at home. At work I’m forced to use excel but I do everything I can on python.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 months ago

          Actuaries probably get paid more than data scientists. But that’s based on a sample of one: my brother is an actuary and I’m a software dev who works with a data scientist.

      • @grue
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        211 months ago

        I ran across this in another thread yesterday. Sounds like you might think it’s as cool as I do!

      • @filister
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        211 months ago

        I think Microsoft recently introduced Python support in Excel, so maybe you can combine both.

        • @[email protected]
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          511 months ago

          It’s tied up with their azure cloud service and I kinda combine both already with pandas.read_excel() and DataFrame.to_excel().

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          As far as I know, the only thing that the new python integration helps with is that users don’t have to install Python or have to know how to use pip to install packages like pandas, because Python doesn’t run locally. It is neat how you can visualize data and show it inline with the Excel document though. My industry is very regulated, so we won’t be able to use it since the data you pass to Python goes to Azure for processing

        • Spaz
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          211 months ago

          They did

      • @uisOP
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        311 months ago

        Teeeechnically I’m hobbyist too now.

    • @bighatchester
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      811 months ago

      Me ! I’m a more recent Ubuntu user . But used it alittle in highschool over 10 years ago . Both my parents can’t even use a computer . But I had a really good tech teacher who handed out Ubuntu CDs to who ever wanted one and helped me learn to program .

    • folkrav
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      11 months ago

      I’ve been running Linux in one way or another since ~2007, a good 6 years before even considering working in software development. So I guess it was the other way around for me haha. Parents couldn’t be further from the field.

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      I’m very much not. It’s also why I struggle to use it. But it’s worth it not to deal with Windows shitfuckery.

    • Captain Aggravated
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      411 months ago

      Pilot turned woodworker here. Been using Linux for 10 years. Granted, my father was an IT guy…who’s career had nothing to do with Linux, he’s a Windows Server/AS400 guy.

    • @Ziglin
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      411 months ago

      A quantum physics professor, also I’m only a hobbyist.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      I am not an IT professional and neither is my dad. I discovered linux through virtual machines on the cloud that you can connect through vnc and fell in love with the commandline.

    • @uisOP
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      211 months ago

      I know 2 of them. Both are my grandparents.