He might’ve graduated years ago. My experience (also from India) was Ubuntu/Mint is the most likely OS you will encounter in academia here. In school, we were taught about OSes (just GUI programs from Windows and Linux). And during engineering where basic programming is taught to all, we were encouraged to use Ubuntu and even our computer lab had Ubuntu or Mint installed on all computers.

Depends on how old the HDD is

Not officially supported but it works just as well and might be more well documented than Ubuntu, regarding support and issues

I disabled the caps lock key all together

I used the textbook as the primary reference but I tried some of the games posted here and they helped me learn a nuance or two that I missed while reading the book

You joke but one time after a fresh install I genuinely forgot to update (the linux header files or something) and some of the device drivers weren’t working

Time is relative in hell

Ok but why my graphics driver act up?

Watch out, using the door requires you to be in wheel group

Not much. There used to be this fear of Microsoft copyrighting Mono for reimplementing their stuff on Linux. For that reason, Mono was avoided by linux app developers. But since MS had acquired the company that made and developed Mono and they have also open-sourced .NET and everything, this does not mean much.

But to its credit its alphabetical

In what way?

Yes And I’m just pulling his leg for being overly excited

Average over-enthusiastic Wayland promoter:

Can you configure it to ignore ls and cd …

The circle of 1!f€

Yes I agree and arch can handle all of those use cases in the best way possible (jest)

I spent the better part of my day debugging an python library no IDE issue no flathub issue causing certain shell commands to not run in the IDE’s integrated terminal and confusing the living heck out of me. And I use Arch BTW so don’t you go around spreading linux misinformation

Linus bit my penguin

Hey but at least my app binary is 8kb and I can run on all platforms