I have been gifted a few ancient laptops from the stone age
oh so laptops from 1990s? cool i love to have one actually
(2005-2014).
excuse me? what? 2014 is ancient? fr? am i this out of touch?
(im not old, new technology pricing is just too much for me. im still stuck in 2016 hardware wise).
i go to a public university and i expect that a public institution does not force you to use a specific commercial software if there are alternatives. i understand the hesitation for providing instructions for GoobleOS (although if someone approached me for a problem i would try to help them as best as i can) but Ubuntu is not GoobleOS and most people use Ubuntu or other debian based distros which instructions for Ubuntu usually generalize to them as well, so it wouldn’t kill them to provide instructions for Ubuntu if they are already doing it for windows or macOS. im not using a debian based distro before asking.
Can’t relate
if you can’t relate and/or don’t care then don’t leave condescending comments that deal psychic damage to everyone that reads them.
oh yeah that’s common as hell. all instructions are for windows because if you’re on another OS “you’re competent enough to figure it out”.
i had to use circuit simulator and PCB design software for some of my courses and they barely run in windows good luck with wine. our OS lab course which was for literally teaching us how to use linux insisted that we use a VM on windows instead.
best part is our university has no available computers for undergraduates to use so everyone must own a laptop (for exams you had to bring your own laptop) and the university was gracious enough to loan a total sum of 76 dollars for a new laptop.
to be fair and balanced an old stolen refurbished ThinkPad (mine had a japanese keyboard I can’t image what the poor businessman felt when they stole it) was around 50 dollars otherwise most other electronics have the same price as their retail price in the US + 10-20% for tariffs or smuggling surcharge.
our computer still had a floppy drive until around 2016 i think. good times. unfortunately everything we had on floppy was for DOS not windows xp and i was just a kid so i didn’t know how to get DOS working.