Back in my corporate life, windows computers were administered by IT, we were
not even given administrative passwords to the computers that ran instruments.
IT would routinely push updates to the computers without warning and because of
this, all of our NMRs ran Linux. It was not unusual to come into work in the
morning and find that half of the mass spectrometers were no longer functioning
because of unwanted updates. Meanwhile the NMRs just kept on running. Fortunately
our IT department was frightened of Linux and left us to our own devices, literally.
Laird
Laird A. Trimble, Ph.D.
President, Trimble Analytical Services Ltd.
laird.trimble_at_trimbleanalyticalservices.com
1-613-286-2799
> On Sep 8, 2025, at 10:29 AM, gregory.wylie via groups.io wrote:
>
> The main reason I don't want to use Windows is that I will have zero control.
> IT will do everything and I am afraid of the down time this will cause. This
> does mean we are our own IT but we have been doing our own IT since the Sun
> and SGI days.
>
> We are wondering if some of our issues are just Alma or Linux in general?
> We have had more issues since switching to Alma than with CentOS but I have
> not tried to move any systems off of Alma yet. This is something we have
> considered because we have gotten Topspin to run on other flavors, before
> Bruker officially went to Alma.
>
> Our teaching labs have the Fourier 80's that run windows and they have had o
> issues with IT and doing updates to windows and Topspin.
> Greg
>
> Gregory P. Wylie, Ph.D
> NMR Facility Manager
> Texas A&M University
> Department of Chemistry #3255
> 580 Ross St.
> College Station, TX 77843-3255
> gpwylie_at_tamu.edu <mailto:gpwylie_at_tamu.edu>
> 979.458.0705 (voice)
> 979.845.4719 (fax)
> 706.206.0007 (cell)
> http://nmr.tamu.edu
>
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