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Im glad they're using Linux but I wish it didn't have to be because they were fucking broke...
That was only in the 90s. Now they have a vibrant ecosystem where they let students have full root access to there machines.
If things go wrong they just reimage.
Have full root access to my machine, still broke. What am I doing wrong?
You also need full root access to you bank's machines.
If your not spending tons of money on vendor lock in you can spend it else where.
It’s a private school, not much you can do (also 0 tech budget ≠ broke)
Hehe if you're REALLY broke you get "benevolent" corporate grants for things like cheap Chromebooks, so Google can write off a huge donation while vendor-locking school infrastructure and student mindshare into their "cloud services."