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Looks like we are using Linux in university (lemmy.world)

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I started university today, I'm on a more general IT department. In first semester we have only one subject that is actually IT (rest is maths and english) that is about basic programming in C. And it turns out that university computers that we will use for this subject are all running Ubuntu. I planned to bring my laptop anyway because I want to have my configs, but it's still great that students who never used Linux will be introduced to it (for some basic stuff tho).

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I turned down a professorship position at a uni in part because they used windows for the whole curriculum. It would have driven me crazy having to use windows given how annoying it is for dev work. I put value on my sanity and it wasn't worth the modest pay bump to be driven batty every day.

I likely get to teach an IoT class next term. It's going to be so much fun with SBC systems running Linux and Arduino sensor systems! That's worth a ton to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Commendable. Not many people would have made that choice.