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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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[–] termaxima 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That’s pretty cool !

If I had to do this myself, I would probably choose NixOS, so that I could write up a config on one of the PCs, and the deploy the exact same thing on every single one and be certain the build is perfectly reproduced.

Though I’m sure there are similar tools for other distros, but that’s what I know.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sober (flatpak) should work for Roblox :) it uses the Android version with some fixes, signing in was a little jank when I tried it but after that flawless!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't teach the kids about flatpak. Then they will soon discover Roblox/sober.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

not like they have the balls to use the terminal anyways, they saw me install vim there and they freaked out "are you some sort of hacker?" they said, and I looked confused at first before I realized they were talking about me using the terminal, which I become accustomed to it since I used linux for so long.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Any software in Linux can be used in education, as long as the schools invest the time:

  • LibreOffice can create really nice documents and presentations too. Heck, some tasks are more straightforward in LibreOffice than MS. 99% of schoolwork is done in Office suite, so this is nice. Win for Linux

  • For stuff like coding in C or Python, it is even easier in Linux: download a compiler, open a text editor, type some codes then use terminal to run the codes in 10 minutes. In Windows, you need to download the stupid Cygwin and mess around with environmental variables to get Cygwin to recognize the libraries.... Or if you want to automate things, MS Visual Studio will do that. The only downside is you will lose > 10 GB of space. Linux wins here again.

  • Anything more advanced will unfortunately Windows land. I'm talking about advanced image programs like Photoshop or professional video apps. But again, if you need them then might as well get a Mac. Another hiccup would be in CAD software: Linux just doesnt have a good app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

tbf with all due respect Screw Adobe, idek why people even use their products, KDENLive and GIMP serve well, for the tasks I doing, and even if you want something more advanced, there is davinci resolve, it's proprietary software but its forgivable if KDENLive isn't cutting it for you

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Them paying you is so nice! I remember installing Ubuntu in some computer in high school before I even used Linux myself lol

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Now students got addicted to linux ricing instead of games, jk good job op and the principal is nice for letting you do that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Used to run a whole small highschool on Linux Mint, worked pretty well.

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[–] onlinepersona 6 points 6 days 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days 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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