Microsoft says its best not to fiddle with its Windows 10 group policies (that don't work)(go Linux)

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[QUOTE=Demache;52299434]Exactly. The pretty poor state of computer education is a problem. When I took an entry level operating environments course in University, we used both Windows and CentOS. While that specific course was more on the administrative side, it could be adapted for general purpose usage. Obviously no one distro is the definitive flavor of Linux, but any distro is better than Windows only.

When I went to primary school, they were so busy teaching you how to use Microsoft Word, rather than teaching how to use a computer. If that's all you ever show them, it's no surprise that they demand MS Office. They can't imagine using anything else.[/QUOTE]

I went to both a really good high school in my state and a mediocre one, neither had computer classes that taught anything substantive. They both did have A/V classes and CAD classes, but at the latter school when I learned autodesk inventor, we were boot camping XP SP3 on iMacs with HD2400 IGPs. I imagine anyone who did video editing was stuck with iMovie or maybe something nicer, but OSX-only for sure.

I remember in 6th or 7th grade I had a computer class where all we did was use Adobe Dreamweaver and some obscure MacOS 9 software to make stupid websites and animations. afaik, there are no curriculums anywhere in US public schooling that touch even the basics of what (for example) the CompTIA A+ does, and that shit is BASIC. And I don't think there's any specific teaching degree for it, the teachers I had for those classes were usually the science or shop teachers.

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[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;52301748]I went to both a really good high school in my state and a mediocre one, neither had computer classes that taught anything substantive. They both did have A/V classes and CAD classes, but at the latter school when I learned autodesk inventor, we were boot camping XP SP3 on iMacs with HD2400 IGPs. I imagine anyone who did video editing was stuck with iMovie or maybe something nicer, but OSX-only for sure.

I remember in 6th or 7th grade I had a computer class where all we did was use Adobe Dreamweaver and some obscure MacOS 9 software to make stupid websites and animations. afaik, there are no curriculums anywhere in US public schooling that touch even the basics of what (for example) the CompTIA A+ does, and that shit is BASIC. And I don't think there's any specific teaching degree for it, the teachers I had for those classes were usually the science or shop teachers.[/QUOTE]

Yeah most semi competent computer education in high schools are electives, not anything compulsory.