• GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    243·
    1 小时前

    I had this problem over 10 years ago. change your user-agent, problem solved.

    they do it because they are regulations for educational software that must be met, like specific access requirements in order to be used in accredited courses.

    it’s not anything specifically against Linux, it’s that they can’t test and validate those access requirements for anything outside Windows due to organizational limitations.

    source: I worked for colleges early in my career that used Pearson then worked for a vendor that managed infrastructure and project management for Pearson. they aren’t unique, their competition is just as fucked as they are. most still use waterfall because upper mgmt is old and refuses to adapt.

    • cute_noker@feddit.dkEnglish
      71·
      36 分钟前

      My bank does this too. I also just change the user agent to switch and it works with no issues.

      At this point it just seems silly that they even want to go out of their way to Prohibit Linux users

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    41 分钟前

    They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn’t support a common OS.

  • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.mlEnglish
    691·
    4 小时前

    I’ll just change my web browser’s user agent then; you’re a fucking website, you don’t need to know which OS I’m using.

    It’s amazing how many “unsupported” web apps work perfectly fine once you change the UA. It’s often a completely arbitrary limitation so that they can hire less qualified support staff.

    • irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 小时前

      A small publisher’s ebook platform recently started blocking firefox for me, did a bit of digging and found that if pages aren’t requested with the right headers (which work in chrome and msedge) it will respond with a 302, suggesting you go to another page which takes a few minutes and then times out.

      This is probably to stop scraping, and could be because I started testing some scraping scripts on it.

      Anyway, this hasn’t even stopped me scraping, I just copied the headers and use those in my script.

      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        15·
        3 小时前

        Nope we don’t want to hire anyone who knows anything about Linux, no one uses Linux

        “Linux is unsupported”, that’ll work

        Everyone: uses a UA switcher

        “See? No one uses Linux, 100% of users are on Windows or MacOS”

    • rapchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      25 分钟前

      a “compatibility issue” would be if the website didn’t load or display incorrectly, but as others pointed out, if you change your “user agent” (the code that tells websites what os and brower you use) to windows, it runs perfectly well
      also, piss off, nobody’s saying there are no difficulties

  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eeEnglish
    19·
    4 小时前

    Just had to deal with this last semester. Get a user agent switcher plugin and change your OS to windows, it should work for everything but proctored tests. You’ll likely have to go in person for those

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
    421·
    7 小时前

    What “Key features” from an educational course could possibly require windows? It’s spying on you.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      4 小时前

      Does it have online exams? Pearsons shitty anti cheat stuff they use for proctoring is windows and mac only.

      Having seen how much people cheat including using someone else using screensharing to proxy the exam for you I cannot blame them for wanting to do this, but I do blame them for not wanting to support Linux properly.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        14·
        4 小时前

        If they’re going to have online exams they need to just accept that cheating is going to happen. There’s a million ways to do that in an environment you control. Make the exams open book but make it harder to account for the fact that the students have access to reference materials.

        • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 小时前

          So, in principle, I agree, but it doesn’t help with proxying, or for example, one I saw this week of someone using AI voice assistant to answer questions. Or people copying and pasting from online groups.

          Their shitty software monitors all the connected devices, running processes, and webcam. That’s still needed for open book.

          • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
            1·
            3 小时前

            Not really a lot of the teachers at the tech school I went to did it that way and I know for a fact they weren’t getting paid well at all.

  • Abnorc@lemm.eeEnglish
    162·
    6 小时前

    Your operating system Ubuntu, is not supported.

    Click here to upgrade to Arch, btw.

  • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
    7·
    5 小时前

    I tried to download Microsoft Office on Linux Mint and I couldn’t even download the exe (to run through wine), I needed to go to Windows to download it … now I just need to make it work (I am in the 1% of people who actually need official Excel)

  • Padook@feddit.nlEnglish
    431·
    8 小时前

    Its comical that in the last 25 years Linux has gone from a nerd-only tool to something that a 10 year old can install on an air-fryer and still we deal with this bs