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

  • ignirtoq@fedia.io
    38·
    4 months ago

    Not only did my math master’s thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn’t need.

    • oo1@lemmings.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.

      I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) gui’s people used for icq messaging though.

  • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    4 months ago

    I have also seen some desktops of my hospital labs using Ubuntu. Must say, amidst all the win7 monitors, that looked so sexy…

  • ch00f@lemmy.world
    3·
    4 months ago

    I remember having my mind blown in college when I saw a Mac Pro tower running Ubuntu in a lab.

      • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        At one point I triple booted my laptop with Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OSX mostly just to prove I could. Weird times, a lot has changed since then.