I would assume they would be busy solving Integrals not this
Most of my teachers either used MacOS or Ubuntu very few times I saw Windows but again my studies were in computer science so a bit of a bias.
It's outrageous! You must start a crusade to make them see the error of their ways and start using Arch!
I teach. I use Arch for my school laptop.
Thank you for your service ❤️
They're teachers, they already have a full time job, they don't need a side job of syadminning their own laptops.
I don't get how people manage to spend so much time keeping arch running. I used it on my laptop for a few years and it just worked?? It was like the easiest to maintain distribution I've used other than immutable ones. The only real problems I ever had were accidentally interrupting pacman during a kernel update and not having a kernel, but that was always a like 2 minute fix
I'm a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁
me too!
Should I ?
please don't
No
You must! The Penguin demands it!
Not only did my math master's thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn't need.
TIL that plain TeX is a thing.
Chad
my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.
I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) gui's people used for icq messaging though.
Wait what? Telnet? I am guessing cybersecurity is not one of the classes available at your school.
it might've been ssh i can't really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one. IIRC don't think either service was accesible via the internet though.
plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)
I have also seen some desktops of my hospital labs using Ubuntu. Must say, amidst all the win7 monitors, that looked so sexy...
I'm running the win 7 wallpaper on my MacBook currently, lol
Windows 7, first released in 2009, now well out of the most extended of support. Glad to see security of medical records is a top priority.
Don't worry, Ubuntu was probably Lucid. 🤭
Medical environments are notorious for inept tech skills and slow technology adoption.
A lot of my professors of meteorology (and IT courses, of course) also use either Ubuntu or Kubuntu! Love to see it
it's kinda the fire-and-forget of OSes. you just press the update/upgrade button when the unattended-upgrade didn't catch all and it just works for free and forever.
I remember having my mind blown in college when I saw a Mac Pro tower running Ubuntu in a lab.
I started using Ubuntu because of Radio Astronomy stuff.
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