It was great with my CS program. The only issues I had were due to me using some tiling WM so it was harder to make HDMI work for presentations, and then when I switched from Arch to NixOS it was too much of hassle… so should have been way smoother just staying on Arch
I am close to that point right now, and listing all the irritating things in my life that I could think of made my stress about the whole situation a lot better.
Only thing to add to what has already been said: Office related stuff will be your biggest issue. Personally I suffer a lot with the web version of the Office apps, so I recommend dual boot or VM for when using office.
if you went into space, stuck a spoon out and tried to eat what the spoon collected, the nothingness that goes into your mouth, well, at the smallest levels, there are millions of things popping into and out of existence. when we die, the nothingness we become will fade in and out of this reality, but our consciousness won’t be able to interact so we’re back to that spoonful of nothingness.
I switched to Linux while going back to school in 2014.
My calculus class had one of those “buy the $80 textbook to get the code for the online assignments” things which didn’t want to work in Linux. I think the URL had something to do with Wolfram. Figures. Side question: Do they still give out copies of Mathematica to Raspberry Pi owners?
Turns out English professors can’t tell the difference between Times New Roman and Liberation Sans.
Writing papers in LibreOffice Writer isn’t a problem, it works fine for that. My professors tended to want them printed out and turned in on paper, so they had no clue what software made it. Printing to PDF works perfectly well too; if they specifically want a .docx file you’ll probably survive. I would probably recommend OnlyOffice over LibreOffice for MS Office compatibility, but an MLA formatted school essay should survive that conversion.
The least plausible thing was working with other students on PowerPoint presentations. LibreOffice Impress works well enough, you can put words and pictures on slides, but its compatibility with PowerPoint just ain’t there. “Let’s each make five slides.” maybe if you work with a blank template first, collect them all together, then apply a style.
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