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Can someone get through college on GNU Linux?
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this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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I also have basically only my personal experience to go off of (from studying computer science), but I never had to plug hardware into my laptop. Printers were available over the network and the one time we worked with hardware, they had dedicated lab PCs there, which had the necessary software pre-installed.
From what I've heard on the internet, that's quite a common theme. Lots of hardware equipment is ridiculously expensive, so you don't go buying new equipment when accompanying software doesn't work on newer operating systems anymore. Instead, you keep a PC around with that old OS and the software, specifically for operating that hardware.