Abstract
1 Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany *Correspondence: michael.hanke@gmail.com; yaroslav.o.halchenko@onerussian.com †Michael Hanke and Yaroslav O. Halchenko have contributed equally to this article.
Highlights
In the survey we asked participants to describe three computing environments they might be using: personal – a system with an operating system of their own
The most striking result was that GNU/ Linux-based operating systems are the most commonly reported computing platform in our sample of neuroscience researchers
A total of 68% (95%-CI [64, 72]) of all participants reported to be using such an OS in at least one of the described computing environments. This statistic yields 52% for Windows (CI [48, 56]) and 26% for Mac OS X(CI [23, 30]). This figure was even higher for participants that described themselves as “developing software to be used by other researchers” (n = 237; 75% Linux users, CI [69, 80]), than other nondeveloper participants (n = 346; 64% Linux users, CI [58, 68])
Summary
In the survey we asked participants to describe three computing environments they might be using: personal – a system with an operating system of their own. The most striking result was that GNU/ Linux-based operating systems are the most commonly reported computing platform in our sample of neuroscience researchers.
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