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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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[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bill Gates is responsible for Common Core which has enshitified the education systems of many states. Anything the schools do to stop giving money to Microsoft is a good move.

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[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

For such a setup I think it Is a good idea to look in to freeipa/idm. Would make management a load more easy. centralized account control and being able to sit at any PC and login with your own credentials is one of the many benefits.

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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Before I read the text, I was going to ask,

"Umm did they know you were doing it?" It would be funny if you just did it without asking leaving them wondering, "How the hell did this happen?"

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know it's bad when Shadow IT starts migrating your inventories.

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[–] aqua_cat@pawb.social 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linux over here being all environmental and shit.

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's an awesome story. If all your doing is browsing the Web or using applications that can easily and stably run on linux or have drop in replacements then linux would definitely be totally viable. On the other hand if you need to install specific proprietary applications and you have to rely on wine then maybe not.

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago

Did the same some years ago. It was for the gap between win7 and 10.

Everyone told me it was the best productive time. Because users can't install stuff and my network blocked a lot of dumb shit.

But now we got new win 11 PCs and every user is back on solitaire or shady websites.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 46 points 3 days ago (4 children)

This is a great story, and you should be really proud of yourself! Good job :). I used Linux through college and had very few issues (that I can remember!)

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[–] starstriker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It takes one technology inclined person to set it up, it's just takes another one to find a workaround, now the success of Linux in preventing gamers from doing their think depends on whether the second person decides to make the workaround known

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

yes but they will have to learn the OS, thats also a good thing

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] bonnashejve@europe.pub 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When I studied in university - all our computer classes were running Linux, and it was many years ago! Linux proved its effectiveness. When we had russian cyber attack on our banks (virus Petya)- our bank system survived thanks to Linux). Nowadays when twitter, facebook chose nazism - there is only one option to go to decentralized media

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[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have done a remarkable job already.

Linux is a free and open operating system. The licence for it - GNU Public License v2 is designed to grant you and me and my wife and your family and everyone everywhere rights and not restrict our rights. The only restriction with the GPL is that if you make a change to the code, that you make it available to everyone.

Education should be about teaching concepts and ideas and ideals. I think it should not involve artificial costs that might constrain access to a full and fruitful education. Those costs might even involve ... thou shalt update to Windows 11 and your laptop's CPU is not good enough.

Please keep on doing what you are doing, in your way. When you have your school running as you think it should, there is a good chance that you will be asked to do the same thing for other schools.

Please make sure you have the full support of your school principal (I think that is the right term - I'm from Britain so we might have different names for jobs)

I run a small IT company in the UK and I am trying to put together a distribution and so on for my company. Perhaps I should try your approach and be a bit more direct.

Cheers mate Jon

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[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wish I could do that when my school computers had Dos and Turbo Pascal. Ah, the good old himem.sys times. Miles better than W11.

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[–] bpev@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Focus on lessons instead of slacking, eh?

workstation013 is not in the sudoers file. 
This incident will be reported.
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[–] thirstyhyena@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Next step is to teach the students WINE. ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago

I'll let them figure that out themselves xddd

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t know how developed your school system is but, I would advise the principal into blocking the websites via DNS that way the computers won’t resolve them.

AdGuard, PiHole, OpenSense are free open source DNS resolvers however, chances are your school already manages its own DNS so I would obviously consult with them first.

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[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (9 children)

.. And this is how you land in IT work

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cool story bro.

Except the story is actually cool, and you're a real bro!

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[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Lol a kid can google how to install games on linux, just need one to do it and teach the others, I used to bring games on a usb to play on macs through wine through the school lan, eventually I put them in some random folder on the school network, it didnt delete it til like the last day of school my senior year, wed copy the games to our computers and delete them at the end of class.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

But then the accidentally had to learn Linux, win win

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Holy shit if there’s that much dust on the front grille of the computer I can’t even imagine how much is caked on the internal heat sinks. I bet you could literally double the speed of these computers with a vacuum or air blower.

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