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I go to a programming school, where there were computers running ancient windows 8 and some were on windows 10, they ran really slow and were completely unrelaible when doing the tasks that are required, those computers in question had either i5-4750 (I think?) or i7-4970 so running windows 10 with all its bloat was not going to be an easy task for em, so long story short I decided to talk to the principal about it explaining why linux is so much better than windows and gave him reasons why linux will be better for us for education and he agreed after considering it for a bit, he let me know that some students play roblox or minecraft in middle of the lesson and he asks if linux would stop em from doing that, I stated that as long as they dont know how to work with wine/lutris or know any specific linux packages that run windows games on linux they should not be able to play in the middle of lessons. he gave me the green light to do it, so I spent like 3 days migrating like 20+ computers to linux (since I had to set them up and install some required applications for them) in the last day where I was doing a last check up on the PCs to make sure they are in working order, there was a computer having a problem of which where it didnt boot, I let the principal know about this to get permission to work on it, he said yes, so after some troubleshooting I realized the boot order was all screwed, so since Ive worked with arch before I knew how to fix it, I booted up linux mint live image, chrooted, and fixed the boot order and computer went back to life, prinicipal came in checked on everything to make sure everything works, told me to wait for a bit, and then came back and paid me for his troubles (was a bit of a surprised since I expected nothing of the sort), the next day I came to school, sat down, turned PC on, noticed something was in the trash bin, opened it, found "robloxinstall.exe" on it, told the principal about it, he was pleased with it, so now 2 weeks later he seems now to be confident about linux, as he told me there is another class he is considering to move to linux.

so my question here would be: does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

(considering now, that I got a win win situation, I get to use an OS that I like in school, students gets to focus on the lessons instead of slacking.)

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[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was thinking of Pop!_OS but also heard about NixOS that could be even run on Mid-2012 MacBook Pro.

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[–] Otiz@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (8 children)
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[–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (7 children)

There are plenty of Minecraft launchers in the flatpak store so you might wanna make sure they're not taking advantage of that lol

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

the boot order was all screwed, so since Ive worked with arch before I knew how to fix it, I booted up linux mint live image, chrooted, and fixed the boot order and computer went back to life

Can't you just change this in the BIOS?

does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

Linux has always been suitable (and I would argue ideal) in the education sector. But the reality is that almost no one is going to use Linux in a professional environment so there's an argument to be made that they should be using and learning Winblows.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I tried but, grub itself was malfunctioning, so I fixed it with chroot and a live mint iso

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You fucking rock!! Keep up the good work!

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How does one get a job like this? This is great! I want to get a job in a school or university and infect it with linux. "Guys, look! It's cheaper and we can set it up then pay for support which still makes it cheaper and students can learn how to use it on their computers too, since it's freely available to them!"

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[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

I got this "job" completely by accident, which is funny considering it all started from me being so annoyed with using windows 8 on the computer thats assigned to me (while being so used to linux), life is truly a roller-coaster haha

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yoo that's wild man doing gods (Richard Stallman) work here man.

Great initiative nonetheless. Compared to 8 this much more secure and for programming it's a great choice too. Bringing more life out of some old PCs, saving a school money, and forcing some kids to get creative in order to play Roblox.

As for is it ready fr this application, programming, it has been for a while. For general, especially web based, applications it absolutely is. Of course, there are quite few things were it's just not but for the most part Linux is a great choice.

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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

ancient windows 8

😠

does this mean linux now is ready for the education sector?

* Angry in 20 year old Edubuntu *

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