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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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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is great! The science teacher who used to also look after all the computers at my school was a big fan of the Acorn Archimedes/RISC PC (quite standard school computers in my day due to the BBC computer literacy stuff, where Acorn won the contract for the BBC Micro). We had a couple of PCs (RM Nimbus) which didn't get as much use. I believe the plan was to switch over to PCs running Windows (95 had been out a couple of years) and because of that he left. I wonder if there was a viable alternative at that point, such as Linux, that he would have stayed.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

windows 95 and RICS PCs....this makes me feel nostalgic....

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

For such a setup I think it Is a good idea to look in to freeipa/idm. Would make management a load more easy. centralized account control and being able to sit at any PC and login with your own credentials is one of the many benefits.

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[–] bonnashejve@europe.pub 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When I studied in university - all our computer classes were running Linux, and it was many years ago! Linux proved its effectiveness. When we had russian cyber attack on our banks (virus Petya)- our bank system survived thanks to Linux). Nowadays when twitter, facebook chose nazism - there is only one option to go to decentralized media

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The issues are probably gonna pop up when teachers and students bring incompatible ms office documents from home, and start complaining. Excel is the one I have run in to most, not always being compatible with libreoffice.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

we are a programming school we dont use word processing software, however as for the teachers, we decided to keep windows for them

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had dual booted Ubuntu with Windows when I was in college, without having any prior exposure to Linux or any skill in coding or even scripting. The install itself was incredibly easy and I was wondering why more kids don't do it. All the core functions that a computer was supposed to, Ubuntu was doing it better than Windows save one - running windows specific software.

I guess Linux was good enough for education back then itself, but it ddn't run fancy games and I could not convince anyone else to dual boot their PC.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is awesome. I hope the students don't start enjoying xbill :p

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[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there not some kind of RMM software you could be using to install the same setup on all of them simultaneously? How about monitoring? Firewalls?

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[–] aqua_cat@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] trd@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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