I've been using Linux for a couple decades now -- I use Windows at work and came to like bing desktop; it's unexpectedly nice.
There's always Ctrl+R
I suspect the real reason they are doing this is to condition the students to accept oppressive and unjust surveillance in future workplaces.
Just ext4 on my Linux things; I got scared away from btrfs because of some file loss horror stories
Everyone feels like the economy sucks. But stock buybacks and ai have been great for the 1% who have the means to manipulate the stock market. Everyone else should just buy less avocado toast or something, I guess.
Honestly, this article, like many other articles just like it, is just gaslighting.
Nice. Take that, adware installers! Web exploits and phishing are still (minor) risks though, since they're mostly platform agnostic.
Sounds like a lot of hot air coming from the guy who bypassed congress to float an extra $106,000,000 so the IDF can use more guns and bombs on civilians.
I used to be a vote blue no matter who, afraid of Trump fascism, but a statement must be made that this is not okay.
It makes me feel sick that Biden is sending more money to Israel, with no conditions, knowing that all of that money will be used for genocide.
It's also upsetting (but not surprising) to see so many Israel apologists on social media.
bluesky is not that great. I can't recommend it.
Comments like this make me wish we had a downvote button.
Check out exercism.org - it has sequences of projects in increasing difficulty level in 66 languages. It is very user friendly and provides nice structure for getting started, without the pressure and stress that a classroom environment might introduce. As for the language, pick whichever one interests you.
Lubuntu
My first foray into unix-likes was oprnbsd with fluxbox. I eventually moved to openbox. Lubuntu with lxqt gives a nice simple openbox experience with a menu and stuff. I customize it to have openbox present the mouse menu instead of the whole pcmanfm desktop thing.