Always use protection

Damn, new copypasta just dropped.

I feel for the teacher, Windows is still the predominant OS that is used by businesses worldwide and it's unlikely to change any time soon. Ensuring the kids have some familiarity with it is important as when a lot of them go into the workplace their employer isn't going to give them a choice of OS to use. A number of schools in my country now provide kids with Windows laptops that can be managed through group policies. I can imagine the teacher feeling frustrated at times as their teaching material will be geared to Windows and may face challenges in being able to grade your kid.

It's great you have given your kid experience in using Linux and that should set them up really well to working in a Linux based environment. Hopefully one day other OS will be added to teacher's curriculum so that all kids have the opportunity to get hands on experience.

Hey as someone who kinda grew up in that scenario, I really reccomend you show your kid what a windows dual boot is

Your kid doesn't exist in a vacuum. They have friends and inevitably your kid's going to be in a situation where their friends are like "hey, want to play this game with us?" And they can't because it's got a kernel anti-cheat that doesn't work with Linux. They're going to try and get into a hobby, only to find that the software everyone uses doesn't work on Linux and the alternatives that do are badly maintained and frustrating to work with. They're going to encounter a programme they need for school that just straight up does not work on Linux.

Sure you might be able to find a work around to all these things but like, can your kid? Because I speak from experience when I say that feeling like you have to be constantly running to your dad every time something doesn't work doesn't foster a sense of mastery, it makes you feel like you can't do anything on your computer because you're too small and dumb.

The teacher probably isn't "afraid" of the Linux box, they're probably frustrated that they don't know what's going on and can't help if something goes wrong. The programmes they'll probably teach your kid aren't a perfect 1-to-1 match to their Linux alternatives and they'll be left sitting in the back confused and upset while everyone else is learning about stuff in word and excel that you can't do in libre Office. You're not going to be known as the cool hacker dad, you're going to be put in the same category as the crunchy mum who doesn't let their kid eat sugar and needlessly restricts something that's just so petty to the layman.

I hate when “computer class” is actually “how to be a good Windows subservient slave”.

To whatever resembles hell the closest since she's so inclined to mingle with daemons.

The Gulag²

George Alexopoulos, he is a right wing nutjob. Trump defender, massive racist transphobic antivaxxer bigot. I downvote everything from him because he also has some left-wing baits and people are obsessed with templating them. This template is used all the time for the most stupid of takes. He doesn't need the attention, his style is ugly and disgusting as well, I don't know why people like it and gave him awards.

Yeah the memes are mocking this right wing extremist

Not shocking considering what the original one was. (I'm assuming you mean the original author, not the person who created this version.)

Know you meme page (for those that want to see the original without giving Twitter or his account the views):

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/george-alexopoulos

God I wish I didn't look this up.

I think it's an fair punishment

Don't you call him M'dad?

No kids here, but running Linux since '95 (Debian since '96). My wife runs Linux as well, since the previous laptop was bought in '11. (As long as it runs LibreOffice and firefox, she is ok with anything) That laptop got replaced in '22 as the hardware became unstable. (Again running Debian)

On a side note, my small laptop still has the windows 10 that came with it in a quiet corner... from time to time, it's still needed to rescue Samsung phones from the junk Samsungs dumps on it. (Although, there seems to be an Odin for Linux...) Oh, and to de-drm my ebooks. (I don't care what the sellers of those books think, I bought the ebook, I read it on the reader I prefer)

Does he have an decade old ThinkPad with barebone arch by any chance?

Only if you're doing it on a virtual machine hosted on OS/2.

Nope, native GamePass does not work on Linux. Not with Proton, not with Lutris. The only option is GP streaming using MS Edge.