There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux

Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Linux@lemmy.ml – 427 points – How Linux made a school pandemic-ready
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If you guys are interested in hearing the IT directors Ted talk from 2014 here it is https://youtu.be/f8Co37GO2Fc

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If you can only use a word processor because it looks like the one you have been trained on then you are computer illiterate. That's not something a school should proliferate.

You aren’t wrong, but that’s besides the point. The point is that even if you’re decently computer savvy and you can switch around between programs you’ll always be better and faster at advanced features on the one you used more hours. If you say this never happens to you then you’ve never been exposed to a program for enough time to actually learn it from top to bottom.

Well that's undeniable. But, coming back to this school, do you think that they could afford licenses for the latest MS Office and or MS Windows? No they would teach with one or more generations ago where things are laid out and function totally different.

So you get the same issues you are complaining right now and nobody gained anything.

But, coming back to this school, do you think that they could afford licenses for the latest MS Office and or MS Windows?

Microsoft typically offers licenses to education... and when it comes to Windows it doesn't even matter as most retailers already sell machines with Windows licenses with very competitive prices. It's usual to see bigger retailers selling computers with a Windows license at the same price a smaller retailer would do without license just because they've the volume and get good deals from both Microsoft and hardware vendors.

I'm not complaining, just stating something that should be taken into consideration.

Microsoft typically offers licenses to education...

Well apparently bit in this case as it's too unimportant, as you said.

Who knows if they ever asked?

Well, you said.

That's fair but I was extrapolating a bit there. After all unless their IT department and IT related teachers were really inept they would've know that Microsoft offers things to education and would've got them.