isadora wrote:Today i found following article, sharing experiences with a Linux-desktop at Westcliff High School for Girls Academy, UK.
Nice to read, how teachers and students experience "life without Windows".
For all those having lots of time, now in many places holidays have started:
http://news.kde.org/2013/07/04/year-linux-desktop
Wow, what a fantastic story. Makes me happy to read
Hopefully this can also get students into programming at a much earlier time, as GNU/Linux in general by default is much friendlier for that.
It is interesting for them that now they can choose to move to new hardware whenever they want instead of having a very short Windows cycle. That will surely save them a lot of money and gain them a lot of freedom. Also a lot of savings from Microsoft Office, although personally I think LibreOffice could get better. Additionally it was interesting that some people didn't like the move to Linux, but that was also so with Windows 7, and in particular interesting that "nobody liked Windows 8". Hehe.
As far as I understood, the home enviroment is stored on the server, so each student have their own personal desktop regardless of which machine they use. That sounds like a very good practice.
Very good stuff!
M_R wrote:Sadly, in my country most companies back away from Linux and open source in general because "there is no company backing it, it must be bad if no company is behind it." and "if we run into trouble, who will help us? The community? No thanks, most information about that stuff is in English, yikes!"
I think this article also shows that with the savings an institution can make from not constantly switching hardware and the licence of Microsoft Windows and office, they can hire an IT staff to administer the computers and network.