I started university today, I’m on a more general IT department. In first semester we have only one subject that is actually IT (rest is maths and english) that is about basic programming in C. And it turns out that university computers that we will use for this subject are all running Ubuntu. I planned to bring my laptop anyway because I want to have my configs, but it’s still great that students who never used Linux will be introduced to it (for some basic stuff tho).

  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    My cybersecurity course uses Linux… in a VM. We boot into Windows 10, then start Kali in VMware and do everything inside of it. I still don’t know why, I just bring my own laptop with NixOS and add whichever package we are using to my shell.nix for that course.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      10·
      3 months ago

      Especially as a VM cannot do a ton of things like aircrack, which requires full hardware access and a kernel module

      • ClemaX@lemm.ee
        2·
        3 months ago

        It works with USB interfaces using passthrough. But yeah doesn’t make a lot of sense.