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

  • TimeSquirrel
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    6 months ago

    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.