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Looks like we are using Linux in university (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by cetvrti_magi@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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).

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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