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This is interesting! Thanks for sharing!
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Well, one context that I left out was that the course was pretty simple. We learned some basic loops, graphing, matrix operations, and writing some basic scripts to solve some problems. If you need a higher level functionality, then you'd probably struggle with GNU Octave, I don't know.
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So it can be done, simple as that.
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Yeah, then other languages should be allowed as well.
I would just like to share a story, and probably an opinion as well. When I was doing my STEM undergraduate degree a couple of years ago, I took a course in which I had to use MATLAB. I won't disclose too much information, but it was a course involving computation. Well, we (the students) weren't given a student/institutional license of any sort, but the course coordinator still insisted on using MATLAB. We took it as an implicit instruction to "somehow" obtain MATLAB. In the end, one guy in our class pirated it and distributed it the whole class. Before that though, I did approach my course coordinator, asking them if it's possible to use other software like GNU Octave, which is a clone of MATLAB. Personally I think it should also possible to use any other programming language like Python for example, since the important part is the computation part, in my opinion. They refused any discussion and did not even consider alternatives, instead basically forcing us to "obtain" MATLAB. How else? Well. As I have said, we all pirated it in the end. I did something quite interesting though, which is that for every quiz, assignment, and projects that we had, I'll run the same exact MATLAB code on GNU Octave, to see if it's compatible. And it is. It works flawlessly. There's only one function that GNU Octave didn't support back the (this was a couple of years ago), and even then, it wasn't an essential feature, you could use other software for that function as well. By the end of that semester, I had compiled almost all input/output of the MATLAB code alongside its GNU Octave's counterpart, to demonstrate that we didn't need to pirate MATLAB to get through this undergraduate course. Regrettably though, I didn't follow through. So sad! Do you think piracy is justified in this case?
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Of course, without an operating system, all you have is hardware and other devices. But I meant for the casual desktop user, this does not really matter for them I don't think. I'm sorry, I forgot to put it in the question. Obviously operating systems must exist, I get that, but I mean that for a desktop user, who treats their computers as bootloaders to the browser, so to speak, will different operating systems be relevant for them, i.e. the majority of users?
With lots of things being developed through web technologies, and many things being web-based so that it is cross-platform, will operating systems still be relevant? We can differ philosophically by using Debian or Arch or Windows or Mac, but if nowadays applications are web-based or developed through something like Electron such that it can run on practically all modern operating systems. what is the relevance of operating systems galore? Don't get me wrong I love FOSS and Linux and stuff, but it seems that the paradigm right now is creating web applications, with many things being web-based. Am I off, or is this something you also think about? P.S. I'm a total noob when it comes to IT, so the question might be weirdly phrased.
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Memang pakai browser saja atau ada pakai desktop/mobile clients?
Tulah saya perasan juga, community sini berbeza sikit. Pace of new uploads pun lain juga, lebih slow (naturally).
Toki Pona tu apa benda ya? Haha maaf saya tak tahu
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I see! Sounds fun. Maybe I'll switch to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Just maybe.
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Hahah, probably kebanyakan yang guna Lemmy ni ideologically motivated, saya faham jugak. Tech savy ke? Ada pakai Mastodon jugak?
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Hello! What communities do you usually follow?
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Hello! What communities do you usually browse?
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Hello! Selalu tengok communities apa?
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Hello! Which communities do you usually browse?
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I haven't, but will check it out now! Thank you!
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Salam! Memang berpindah dari Reddit lah kan? Ada tengok tak !cafe@monyet.cc yang ada orang sebut dalam thread ni?
Just curious if there's any Malaysians using Lemmy here! I looked at Malaysia communities in Lemmy but they seem to be deserted.
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I see. Yea, someone I know has used Tumbleweed before and it seems fine. Stable and solid. Just out of curiosity, what Steam games do you play? Do you use Proton?
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A science student. I view "non-technical" and "non-tech/non-techy" as kinda different, as in the latter are more specific to stuff related to computers, at least that's my perception. I'm non-tech or non-techy.
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I've only meddled with openSUSE a little bit but I suspect it's due to several reasons. Firstly, perhaps the lack of marketing. You hear news about Ubuntu and Fedora and NixOS and stuff, but never really about openSUSE, I think? Maybe they do promotions but I don't know about them that much. As you said, they do a lot of stuff but in the background. Perhaps they're really more of a technical distribution, for sysadmins and some users?
