The Political Physicist

 The ramblings of a left-wing research software engineer…


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New Computer, New Linux Distribution

My old laptop was dying and I wanted to replace it before the semester began. The new laptop came with Windows 8 installed and I was not having that, so the choice now became what version of Linux to use. The obvious choice would have been Linux Mint, which I have used ever since moving to Linux. But another Linux distribution which I’d heard interesting things about is called Arch Linux.

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C. MacMackin
I am a research software engineer, writing code for scientists working on fusion energy. I am also an active member of the Prospect trade union.