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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Linux over here being all environmental and shit.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks 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] 5 points 3 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Great job! Now it's a good time to learn a bit of Ansible so you can keep your fleet up-to-date and configured. It would also come in handy in case you get a permit to do more conversions in the future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

+1 for Ansible

  1. Install an application
  2. Do all the updates at the same time ( - after automating all the backups of course 😉)
  3. Removing games 😈
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I'll look into it, thanks a bunch!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

.. And this is how you land in IT work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I'll be definitely cool if I somehow land such job lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That's definitely something that goes into your resume and should be mentioned in interviews if you ever pursue that line of work.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

thanks a lot!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

if they know what flatpak is anyways! however good point lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well it's literally the app named "software" and this is a programming school so someone's bound to find out

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

true but then they have to know the sudo password to install such apps, unless the teachers, the principal or me tell them that, I doubt they'll be successful but hey you do still raise a good point and I shall probably discuss this with the principal

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You generally don't need sudo to install flatpaks and actually pretty sure they advise against it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

for us mint always asks for it, so if you dont type it, it'll just not install it, idk tbh

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Now you go with veyon?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, blast from the past...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I looked up xbill and this looks fun, I might try it on my computer actually! thanks btw

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

same (I might still be younger than you though....but I was definitely using 95 back when it was new, however I was very young then)

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