♦ 2.2k wrote: I have no experience with them, but there are several Linux distributions out there that come preloaded with bioinformatics software. ♦ 7.3k wrote: All of the 3 major platforms have their advantages, and I use all 3 practically every day. Mac OS X is my primary desktop OS, for a number of reasons, but mostly because I just seem more productive using it than any of the alternatives.

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All of my coding work is done over SSH on Linux (almost exclusively Ubuntu) servers. The power of Aptitude package management, and the robustness of this platform means that there really is no other choice for this kind of work.

Finally I run Windows 7 on my netbook, because it is an excellent OS for that platform, and enables me to do everything I want that machine to be capable of, note-taking, blog writing, as a display machine for Powerpoint etc. It is also useful to have Internet Explorer kicking around somewhere for compatability testing. I wouldn't consider using any machine that I didn't have admin rights on for work purposes, if I have to jump through hoops to get stuff installed, it just slows me down too much.

This is another reason for using OS X for my primary desktop, it allows me to escape the University's 'Common Desktop' policy for Windows PCs, which would take control of my computer out of my hands. 40 wrote: I have a Mac Pro dual quad core that I use for everything. I use the Mac OS for day to day email, most graphics, browsing, I run a VMWare virtual Windows machine, and I do most analysis in the unix terminal. Windows runs much better on the Mac hardware, Excel is much faster in Window, and I can fileshare between the Windows and Mac systems. So far this has been sufficient for me. If I run into a situation where I need more computing power, I can ssh to a Linux server, but I haven't needed to yet.

I configured the machine with 16 GB RAM, leaving slots open to add another 16 if needed. I've been happy with this. ♦♦ 78k wrote: Often people are limited to their choices by factors outside of their control. One lab that I work with requires the use of Mac computers another is using Windows mostly. Large scale computations seem to be best suited for Linux systems. Luckily there is a migration towards unified capabilities across all platforms.

Installing Cygwin on Windows allows us to tap into the power of Unix, while Linux distros have advanced graphical user interfaces like Windows and Macs. From my own observations of non technical people, the installation of new and interdependent software packages seems to be the most difficult on Mac computers and easiest on Windows due to the computational architecture that makes all Windows computers identical. 2.7k wrote: Most stuff we do is done on a linux HPC that runs CentOS.

People access this in different ways, but my preffered set up is a big windows box (Xeon, 32GB RAM) running a Xubuntu VM (which gets 20GB of that RAM). I have SSHFS pipes set up to the disk areas on the HPC that allows me edit code in local editors, and a terminal with SSH to the cluster to run things.

There is no real reason that I couldn't do this in Windows, particularly with WSL, although getting sshfs working on windows has always seem a bit of a pain. It would also probably work just as well on Mac, though I guess a Mac box that big would set me back significantly more than the windows box did (around £800). Occasionally I want to run local RStudio or Juptyer (operating on files over SSHFS), and I find that works better on Linux than windows.

We don't have root access on the cluster, and that has occasionally been an annoyance, but to be honest conda and bioconda has eased almost all that pain, and where things arn't available in conda, I've yet to come accross something that can't be complied from source without admin rights with a little bit of effort.