Hi Folks,

 

I operate on a limited budget for teaching.

 

Windows Pro will cost me too much.

 

Therefore, I will not experiment using SUSE (OpenSource Suse) for teaching purposes.

 

This might be challenging, at first.

But, I am sure that I can use OpenSuse to meet my needs....

 

Most of what I need is available from Google, such as Google Docs, Sheets, etc.

 

I have used SUSE for over two decades, and it's COOL.

 

I don't need to worry too much about the learning curve.

 

Moving from Window to Linux will finally give me more peace of mind.

 

Just because, as far as I know, Microsoft is....

 

Dithpicable....

 

 

 

There are always workarounds for almost everything.

 

No doubt, teaching using a Linux OS can be done, even though there are applications which do not run, natively, on the Linux desktop.

 

Still, it will be far worth it to finally rid myself of this despicable Window OS, and the MS Corporation, led by psychopaths....

 

 

What a total A-HOLE.

 

There is really something wrong with this nutzo!

 

============

 

I just wish that Linux-Desktop had made much more progress in recent years.

 

Balmer is a total A-hole, of course.

 

is he even still alive?

 

Regards,

Gamma

 

 

What a life.

1. You don't need Windows pro, no added extra value for average teacher.

2. Standard Windows license  is under $20 US.

3. PLENTY of free LEGITIMATE software for Windows. 

4. Why the hell reinvent a wheel?

 

If you really ARE a teacher, you don't have time to waste on learning how to make Linux work in a school environment. If you're just bored and making up stories like this topic, a teacher thinking about doing this might just have saved a BUNCH of time  not doing something as ridiculous as switching to Linux.

8 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

1. You don't need Windows pro, no added extra value for average teacher.

2. Standard Windows license  is under $20 US.

3. PLENTY of free LEGITIMATE software for Windows. 

4. Why the hell reinvent a wheel?

 

If you really ARE a teacher, you don't have time to waste on learning how to make Linux work in a school environment. If you're just bored and making up stories like this topic, a teacher thinking about doing this might just have saved a BUNCH of time  not doing something as ridiculous as switching to Linux.

 

Replying:

 

1.  Almost agree

2.  I do not agree unless you can show me where to buy a valid Windows license for under USD 20

 

Conclusion:  Show me where I can buy a Standard Windows license for under USD20, and I will buy it.

 

Waiting.....

 

Waiting....

 

 

Waiting....

 

 

The EMBALMER !!

 

 

5 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

The EMBALMER !!

 

 

 

Right.

We can wait until hell freezes over before MS will sell us a license for Windows 11, for USD20.00.

 

What nonsense!

 

Now, feel free to embalm me, if you will....

 

Also:  There are important differences between Home and Pro.  For one thing, memory.  And then, there are other differences.  So, I would be suspect of the poster's post.

 

 

Edited March 30, 20242 yr by GammaGlobulin

31 minutes ago, HappyExpat57 said:

1. You don't need Windows pro, no added extra value for average teacher.

2. Standard Windows license  is under $20 US.

3. PLENTY of free LEGITIMATE software for Windows. 

4. Why the hell reinvent a wheel?

 

If you really ARE a teacher, you don't have time to waste on learning how to make Linux work in a school environment. If you're just bored and making up stories like this topic, a teacher thinking about doing this might just have saved a BUNCH of time  not doing something as ridiculous as switching to Linux.

 

Still waiting.....

 

Tell me where!

 

I will buy for USD20.00

 

Waiting....

 

Waiting....

 

 

Find a tech guy.

he will be able to install windows for you. 

 

this was a classic !!

 

you can start me up. 

 

 

Tell somebody who cares.

14 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Find a tech guy.

he will be able to install windows for you. 

 

 

I am a tech guy.

I can install Windows, myself.

And, I have been doing so for four decades, already....

Honest!

 

 

14 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

this was a classic !!

 

you can start me up. 

 

 

 

These NITWITS did their best to kill Linux.

 

They are EVIL....

 

Evil Nitwits, for sure.

 

 

How much money do you make in a month for teaching???

5 minutes ago, 2baht said:

How much money do you make in a month for teaching???

 

ZERO Mostel....

 

Not about the money.

It's about staying alive.....

 

 

 

Edited March 31, 20242 yr by GammaGlobulin

3 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

ZERO Mostel....

 

Not about the money.

It's about staying alive.....

 

 

 

Hard to survive and stay alive with out money???

26 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Find a tech guy.

he will be able to install windows for you. 

 

 

What's wrong with you, Mr. Frog?

 

Have you no ability to understand that it is the license which costs money?

 

Any FING idiot can install Windows on a computer.

 

It is only the FING license fee that I object to.

 

Hop away, Sir!

 

 

7 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Hard to survive and stay alive with out money???

 

What is with out money?

Are you a teacher of English?

 

22 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

These NITWITS did their best to kill Linux.

 

They are EVIL....

 

Evil Nitwits, for sure.

 

 

 

So everything should be absolutely free?

 

Then no one would make money and everyone would become a murderer. 

 

Not sure what you are going through. When you buy a latop, Windows is installed. 

I will not waste any more time with your tech issues. 

Life is too short.

 

 

42 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Hard to survive and stay alive with out money???

 

In fact, it is not so easy to survive....

With...or

Without money.

 

Please witness the fate of Steve Jobs....for example....

THE ULTIMATE CONTROL FREAK....

 

 

 

Plenty of money...

Yet...

Dead as a Doornail.

 

Jobs trusted in fruit.

 

Jobs believed that eating fruit might protect him from death.

 

What a nutcase.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 31, 20242 yr by GammaGlobulin

8 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

So everything should be absolutely free?

 

Then no one would make money and everyone would become a murderer. 

 

Not sure what you are going through. When you buy a latop, Windows is installed. 

I will not waste any more time with your tech issues. 

Life is too short.

 

 

 

And I will never, again, buy a laptop.

 

 

Still, if one wishes to get back to the original Topic, then....

 

There is no doubt that SUSE Linux should be plenty for my purposes.

 

And, SUSE is entirely FREE for non-Enterprise users.

 

This is the way to go, IMHO.

 

 

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Replying:

 

1.  Almost agree

2.  I do not agree unless you can show me where to buy a valid Windows license for under USD 20

 

Conclusion:  Show me where I can buy a Standard Windows license for under USD20, and I will buy it.

 

Waiting.....

 

Waiting....

 

 

Waiting....

 

Buy a Win 10 Pro license for about 5$ and then upgrade to Win 11 Pro for free.

14 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

So everything should be absolutely free?

 

Then no one would make money and everyone would become a murderer. 

 

Not sure what you are going through. When you buy a latop, Windows is installed. 

I will not waste any more time with your tech issues. 

Life is too short.

 

 

 

There is plenty of money to be made from opensource projects.

 

How can you not understand this crucial point?

 

Free does not mean Free as in Free Beer.

 

Everyone's got to pay....and pay, as Lou said that the Sugar Fairy said....

 

 

Plenty of money to be made from the opensource movement.

 

And, no need to be a total FING Monopoly, either.

 

Even those giving head know this.

 

 

2 minutes ago, tgw said:

 

Buy a Win 10 Pro license for about 5$ and then upgrade to Win 11 Pro for free.

 

Perhaps.

But, in the end, Microsoft knows what you are doing.

And then, it comes back to bite you.

 

Also, this might depend upon where you live.

 

Microsoft has different pricing and different rules for different folks, depending upon where you are.

 

And, the rules are always changing.

 

When MS wanted to break into the China market, there were different rules to meet their marketing strategy, even including promoting pirating of their software.

 

But, they did not have the same policy in NYC, for example.

 

Still, the point is.....

 

Why should we be slaves to some lousy software company?

 

41 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

What is with out money?

Are you a teacher of English?

 

No, I'm retired Construction Manager

11 minutes ago, 2baht said:

No, I'm retired Construction Manager

 

Did you work for.....a company like...

 

 

?

 

 

11 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Did you work for.....a company like...

 

 

?

 

 

Never worked for Bechtel but I know of them, but I worked for other International Companies

2 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Never worked for Bechtel but I know of them, but I worked for other International Companies

 

Bechtel was quite big in Taiwan, and other parts of Asia.

 

They never worked on small projects, as far as I know.

 

 

 

30 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Bechtel was quite big in Taiwan, and other parts of Asia.

 

They never worked on small projects, as far as I know.

 

 

 

I worked in Thaichung in Taiwan building a glass factory for Corning with Fluor Daniel.

10 minutes ago, 2baht said:

I worked in Thaichung in Taiwan building a glass factory for Corning with Fluor Daniel.

 

Seems to me that most glass factories, the old ones, are located in HsinChu.

 

Thaichung and ZhangHua are rotten cities.

One wonders how you even tolerated living there....

 

But, that's another story, I guess.

 

(Of course, the names of cities in Taiwan are non-standard.  Hopefully, the commies will conquer Taiwan, soon, and then we will have standardized names in PinYin.)

 

Hsinchu should be ...  Xinzhu

Taichung should be...  Taizhong

 

But, by any name, those two cities are disgusting to live in, for any length of time.

 

And so, I feel sorry for you.

 

 

Edited March 31, 20242 yr by GammaGlobulin