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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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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (9 children)

That’s super awesome

Buuuut my guest gaming machine is a 4670k machine and I can confirm that not only does Windows 10 run very smoothly on it, but it also runs most modern games at 60+FPS! CPU-bound games can struggle. We finally got my partner a new computer and made that one the guest machine when Persona 5 went from 80FPS down to 5FPS when they got off the train hahaha

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[–] LiamTheBox@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Don't forget to test updates and make timeshift backups when needed, I never had a bad update but it really helps.

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[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is great for a handful of devices but I deploy and administrate hundreds of devices at my school. As much as I would love to, there's no way I could sell this without a really robust way of managing device policies & software deployment. I understand RHEL has something like that but that it isn't quite up to the same standard as the Microsoft admin ecosystem just yet.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Beautiful work .... I wish my school had done that when I was a kid.

The great thing about it is that now you are helping to generate a new crop of kids who will learn how to use Linux. Sure, they will try to do stupid things on it like install games or figure out how to bypass things or install or uninstall ... the great thing about that is that they will learn how to use the system in order to try to break it. It's the same way I learned how to use Linux and probably the same way you learned how to use it.

You've advanced the computer department for those kids more than you know.

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Now students got addicted to linux ricing instead of games, jk good job op and the principal is nice for letting you do that.

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[–] harcesz@szmer.info 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Used to run a whole small highschool on Linux Mint, worked pretty well.

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[–] SwampYankee@mander.xyz 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Minecraft Java Edition runs natively in Linux. But kids these days are probably playing Bedrock... chumps.

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[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is great! The science teacher who used to also look after all the computers at my school was a big fan of the Acorn Archimedes/RISC PC (quite standard school computers in my day due to the BBC computer literacy stuff, where Acorn won the contract for the BBC Micro). We had a couple of PCs (RM Nimbus) which didn't get as much use. I believe the plan was to switch over to PCs running Windows (95 had been out a couple of years) and because of that he left. I wonder if there was a viable alternative at that point, such as Linux, that he would have stayed.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

You are doing the lords work and I ain't even a christian

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yoo that's wild man doing gods (Richard Stallman) work here man.

Great initiative nonetheless. Compared to 8 this much more secure and for programming it's a great choice too. Bringing more life out of some old PCs, saving a school money, and forcing some kids to get creative in order to play Roblox.

As for is it ready fr this application, programming, it has been for a while. For general, especially web based, applications it absolutely is. Of course, there are quite few things were it's just not but for the most part Linux is a great choice.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

You have turned Roblox/Minecraft loving little kids into a lifelong Linux haters. 🤣

I applaud you.

PS: So how are the computers performing now?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Minecraft runs natively on Linux, so it won't take them long to figure that out.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 days ago

well, the ones that do figure it out, they earned their game session, that would lowkey force them to learn linux, which is good tbh

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is awesome. I hope the students don't start enjoying xbill :p

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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The issues are probably gonna pop up when teachers and students bring incompatible ms office documents from home, and start complaining. Excel is the one I have run in to most, not always being compatible with libreoffice.

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