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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] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You fucking rock!! Keep up the good work!

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sweet.

I would have gone with Fedora in order to deploy FreeIPA for an Active Directory equivalent, but this is a good start.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

this is actually so insanely epic, good job!

pretty cool of the principal too to allow you to do stuff like this

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[–] [email protected] 201 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Woohoo, some hacker kid is about to install Sober and Prism and will be the hero for everyone.

My kid's elementary school has a computer club handling all the PCs. The other day they were surprised to hear that the PCs they were playing GCompris, Ktuberling, Pingus, Super Tux, Tuxpaint and Tux Kart on are running Linux.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's one of the great things about switching to Linux .... it forces you to learn something new and for kids that is a very good thing.

All those kids in the school that OP described were getting stagnant in a settled environment of living in Windows ... now that they have Linux in front of them, they will go on to learn how to subvert the system under Linux. It's not a bad thing in my opinion, it will create a whole crop of kids who now know how to fool around with Windows AND Linux.

I wish someone would have introduced me to Linux when I was kid.

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 4 weeks ago (9 children)

another example of: one of the best ways to teach children is to trick them.
try to force them to use linux and the terminal? booooring, hell no….
give them linux computers without games?
they’re 1337 haxors in two weeks… with skills that will help them for life….
especially if they ever get locked in a building with velociraptors….

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

that's how I learned firewalls and networking lmao

couldn't access my games, so I found ways around the firewalls and network blocks, just to play on coolmathgames lmao

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