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submitted 2 days ago by Ace120C@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 132 points 2 days ago

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….

[-] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 2 days ago

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

[-] corvi@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago

Same. School firewall blocked based on host names, so we all learned a lot about the hosts file so we could manually set all of the IPs Minecraft needed to authenticate.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Ooh clever. I was able to get around mine by opening sites in an iframe, I made a bookmarklet for it

[-] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago

I'm sure the velociraptors helped you stay focused too.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 2 days ago

Clever girl...

[-] grillgamesh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

haha, I think I got a worldwide high score at the time, or at was close to one back then.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 2 days ago

Or they'll install portable versions of Minecraft so many times they'll decide to learn how to remove -rubbishfiles from root

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

I prefer removing the -french language pack on every install. The command comes with a typo though, so you need to fix that for it by adding /* at the end

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

mais pourquoi ?

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

my dad gave me permission to break the family computer as much as i wanted, and he would just take it to work and reinstall everything from an image….
now i can fix computer problems

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

This is how (at least elder) millennials learned everything they know about technology. It's the only way imo

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Hmm I was clearly too well behaved. Most of my knowledge of computers came through wanting to program them to do cool stuff, not bypass restrictions. The cheatiest thing I can remember doing is copying a cool puzzle game from the school computer onto a flash drive so I could play it at home, so I guess I did it backwards?

[-] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

my dad told me like 5 dos commands, gave me permission to do whatever or break whatever on the home computer his work provided, told me there was some games on there but he didn’t know where… and i figured out the rest pretty much… whenever i broke it he’d just take it to work and bring it back fixed.
this was back in the wild wild west, where the hospital IT had one master hard drive image, and people threw random games and programs on there…
i was always surprised how ok he was with me breaking it weekly, but looking back on it i think he was proud…
i was really lucky in that i had free reign on yearly updated computers, starting on dos when i had just learned how to read, and growing up with that through all the versions of windows…
i mean, i hate microsoft and all, but i just think it’s crazy all of these people have super computers in their pockets and are afraid of the terminal….
it’d be hard to start a kid on the terminal first now, when they can use a touch screen in the crib….
my first computer didn’t even have pictures, but the next one did…

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Nice. In what year(s) did you have your first computer?

this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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