I study math at uni and I was shocked realizing all my teachers use ubuntu on both their laptop and work desktop

  • @mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    326 months ago

    I have also seen some desktops of my hospital labs using Ubuntu. Must say, amidst all the win7 monitors, that looked so sexy…

    • @pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      116 months ago

      Windows 7, first released in 2009, now well out of the most extended of support. Glad to see security of medical records is a top priority.

      • lemmyvore
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        6 months ago

        Don’t worry, Ubuntu was probably Lucid. 🤭

        Medical environments are notorious for inept tech skills and slow technology adoption.

        • TimeSquirrel
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          It’s probably like the US military and their missile silos still using floppy disks. Better to keep a time-tested and very familiar system running a critical operation than a new one with a bunch of unknowns. Or like when you go to the bank, and the screen the teller is looking at is just a front end going through a dozen different layers with COBOL code written by long dead or retired people on a mainframe at the other end.

          Us end users with very low risk can afford to continuously live on the bleeding edge.

          • lemmyvore
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            36 months ago

            Just a note, the US military completed the phase-out of floppy disks in 2019.

    • EtzBetz
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      26 months ago

      I’m running the win 7 wallpaper on my MacBook currently, lol