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    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago
    [–] d00phy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

    Be the chaos you want to see in the world.

    [–] unrealMinotaur@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Wish granted, your university rolls out ChromeOS on all devices.

    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Is ChromeOS built on top of Gentoo?

    [–] Baleine@jlai.lu 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

    Do NixOS and confuse everybody.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

    I've tried, at least in theory, to migrate an entire university's classroom computers to Linux. Even in the absence of technical limitations, the one obstacle I can't overcome is entirely human. ~~The living fossils~~ Our esteemed tenured professors refuse to change their habits because they need their Netbeans, they need their Eclipses, they need their Visual Studios. In a lot of ways, it feels like wayland-protocols' governance. A single NACK from a stubborn fool kneecaps the entire project, and now the university gets to spend hundreds of thousands of euros upgrading the computer labs because the perfectly usable computers are juuuust barely outside Win11's requirements.

    Sidebar: Back when I was a student at that same university, when Windows was small enough to allow dual-booting with Ubuntu from the same SSD, my Prog-1 teacher insisted on using Joe. He hated Vim, Emacs, and Nano with an equal passion.


    Edit: Just to give some validation to the people who need it, I should point out that Nix would be the ideal OS. We use Clonezilla to deploy a painstakingly prepared golden image of Windows with all applications and configuration changes before every semester. If a teacher forgets to request a software (despite the five separate e-mails and posters around the university), we have to pray that it's available either as an MSI or through winget, otherwise we have to manually remote into each affected computer (up to several hundred) and install it one by one.

    I would give my left testicle and half my liver for the ability to have a centrally hosted Nix config file that can be edited whenever and then deployed as the computers come online.

    [–] d00phy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    Something I dealt with a long time ago that has become a sort of rule for me, regardless of how true it might be: Scientists, and University researchers (the tenured ones) hate learning new programming languages and methods. There’s decently good reason behind it, as far as I can tell. I used to support an archive of weather satellite data. Whenever we had a software stack upgrade come in, the scientists grumbled because it meant they had to revalidate large swaths of their data with the new versions to make sure all results were reproducible. One thing they never did, if they could help it, was change the base code they used to generate those results. That would mean much more work. Also, if they wanted to to come up with a new subset of the data, they wrote it in what they knew. Usually Ada! Supporting this is how I learned that we couldn’t get an Ada compiler that would produce 64-bit binaries. The compiler binary itself was 64-bit, but that was it. From what I could learn, SGI had produced a 64-bit compiler for IRIX (I think - which ironically we were migrating from to x64 Linux clusters), and PGI gave up on theirs for “lack of consumer interest.”

    [–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Let’s install Gentoo on all ~~university~~ computers.

    FTFY

    [–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 hours ago

    emerge the @world!

    [–] Rooty@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

    Why? So that we can spend the next week recompiling the kernel? (This is a joke, please don't spam my inbox with distro holy wars)

    [–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 27 points 7 hours ago

    Monday rolls around, they’ve finished like four of them. “Why won’t this kernel work?! NO, for the last time I’m not using genkernel! It’ll be a bloated mess.”

    [–] metoosalem@feddit.org 9 points 5 hours ago

    Would love to do this but I don’t think all those niche specialized apps will run on Linux. They barely function under windows as it is.

    [–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

    Slackware for the worst professors.

    [–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    Still too modern. Try NetBSD.

    [–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

    Oh no. Someone will suggest MacOS next (BSD fork).