I’m not sure what the good kind of boring is, if we could define it, it might be tautologically true that that’s the thing people want.

> Look at how popular Ubuntu VMs are with research chemists.

Are they? I actually have no idea.

> And successful chemists tend to be highly technical.

But not necessarily in any IT sense. STEM skills are very specific.

Sorry, it looks like I’m just being petulant and saying “I’m not sure” about your every sentence, haha, that wasn’t my intent but it is what I ended up doing I guess.