Dear Mark,
XDS does not run on Windows, and even if you take your mtz-file home from the
synchrotron nowadays, you sometimes may want to re-refine some data set.
Windows also costs a lot of money, and if you do a lot of scripting, Windows
may be cumbersome. WinCoot is also often mentioned with difficulties that
don't occur with Coot. If you like incremental backups to save disk space and
time, I am not sure rsnapshot/rsync works with a Windows file system.
A windows machine may also impede data exchange with other institutions. Eg.
downloading data from https://data.sbgrid.org/ is based on rsync, and if I
gave you my usb-stick, Windows would only attempt to format it (well, same
would most likely happen with Mac OS X).
One caveat though: the MS Office version for Mac does not read OpenOffice
Format, so I was told.
Greetings,
Tim
On Friday, October 14, 2016 05:14:46 PM Mark J van Raaij wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> our institution requires me to provide a reasoning not to buy a Windows
> computer (I want to buy a new MacOSX system), so I am looking for software
> that does not run or is limited on Windows.
>
> Not available:
> (Auto)SHARP
> ARPWARP
>
> Available on Windows but with significant limitations
> Phenix (no MR-Rosetta, no parallelization)
> CCP4 (limitations on file-names)
>
> Please correct me if pertinent and provide additional examples if possible.
>
> Gratefully yours,
>
> Mark
>
> Mark J van Raaij
> Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas
> Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC
> calle Darwin 3
> E-28049 Madrid, Spain
> tel. (+34) 91 585 4616
> http://wwwuser.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
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