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

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    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…

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      4 months ago

      Windows 7, first released in 2009, now well out of the most extended of support. Glad to see security of medical records is a top priority.

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        4 months ago

        Don’t worry, Ubuntu was probably Lucid. 🤭

        Medical environments are notorious for inept tech skills and slow technology adoption.

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          It’s probably like the US military and their missile silos still using floppy disks. Better to keep a time-tested and very familiar system running a critical operation than a new one with a bunch of unknowns. Or like when you go to the bank, and the screen the teller is looking at is just a front end going through a dozen different layers with COBOL code written by long dead or retired people on a mainframe at the other end.

          Us end users with very low risk can afford to continuously live on the bleeding edge.