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To start with, CS students are not the masses. In addition to that, some CS students at some schools are exposed to the linux command line, and even less are e
by vectorpush 10y ago
To start with, CS students are not the masses.
In addition to that, some CS students at some schools are exposed to the linux command line, and even less are exposed to linux desktop environments because most CS students have grown up using Windows or Mac and the curriculum is nearly always structured in such a way that it is unnecessary for the student to install a linux DE in order to do their work.
Finally, I'm not willing to blindly accept your claim that "very few of them still choose it", if you have some way to substantiate that claim I'd be interested in the details, but my experience says quite a few of them do choose it, though I'd certainly be willing to yield my anecdotes to some actual data.
- Forlien 10y agoFor what it's worth, I have a counter anecdote. I go to a university where for some computer science courses, your labs are on computers with a Linux desktop environment. Other students seem to do fine in these labs. Even so, when I look around the classroom during lectures, almost all the open laptops are Windows or Mac. Perhaps these students don't get enough exposure over the couple of courses or don't get shown enough of the reasons to switch to Linux.
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- pjmlp 10y agoWhen I went to the university we had UNIX everywhere, not GNU/Linux, that started to be common around my 2nd - 3rd year. We were using DG/UX and Aix before the department started adopting GNU/Linux on their recently build new department building. Windows systems were only used for graphics programming classes and for the first year students introductory courses. Back then our degrees were 5 years long, of daily using UNIX for project assignments, everyone had some form of fvwm, afterstep, windowmaker, enlightment, blackbox, GNOME, KDE, CDE configured as their environment of choice. The majority of us, a few decades later, are mostly coding on Windows and Mac OS X systems.