My hard drive on my laptop died in college and I needed to get a paper written in a few days. I didn’t money to get a new Windows license and Fedora was free and had a live disc I could burn to install off of in the school’s computer lab without getting in trouble. I distro hopped a bit since then, but never went back to Windows. Things worked and it wasn’t as hard as people made it sound.
No evangelizing, I just use my computer.
Could be for the sort of awful filters so frequently employed by schools that just block content based on matching a list of banned words exactly, like I used to have in high school years ago. We couldn’t visit a page on breast cancer without an admin override while learning about cancer in the school library as part of an assignment, all because their awful content filter flagged the page as porn for having the word breast in the page.
Screw that, I’m just taking a later lunch then. If they don’t like it, they can take it up with the Department of Labor to see what they think of making employees attend a meeting during their breaks.
Ah, yes, the prospect of another war with US troops going to a country most Americans couldn’t find without google maps is sure to go over well with people.