I had a course where the teacher basically said you would have a hard time passing if you did not have a windows laptop because it was the only OS that worked well with their program.
The program was Excel workbooks
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I would Honestly just set your user agent to Windows. It is good for privacy and is the default for Librewolf.
"Upgrade?" "UPGRADE?!" Oh no they didn't.
Seriously, though, there may well be ways around this without switching your OS. If it's browser-based, the first thing I'd try is a user-agent switcher.
Though, actually, does that "remind me later" option work? It does look kindof grayed out, but it couldn't hurt to try a click.
Yeah they're not blocking access or anything, I was just infuriated by the message
they’re not blocking access
Wait what? Then wtf is the point of that message? "Your operating system is not supported", except that it totally fucking is.
I’d assume it is not supported as in if you ask them for tech support and they realize you’re not running Windows they’ll happily tell you to pound sand.
Yeah, and browsers are running the same engines across platforms, so there are very few differences between using Firefox on Linux and using Firefox on Windows. My best guess is what @Chronographs@lemmy.zip said, that it's just allowlisting new Windows user agents and was intended to target people running ancient versions of Windows.
I’m guessing it’s the default message for any non-whitelisted os and it was written assuming you’ll be on an old version of windows and not linux
They probably check to make sure you're running a current version of Windows. The code assumes if you're not on Windows 11, then you need to upgrade.
Change User-Agent
Pearson: Please come in!
I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don't seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it's a website, so it's gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you're using a common browser.
That said, they should definitely phrase the message more like "Your OS isn't supported, so don't expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page" than "You need to get a different OS."
ask them for the .onion to get to their site 👍
Yep, absolutely unnecessary too. I run into this too but there doesn’t seem to be any issue after dismissing it. The audacity to say “upgrade”, I hate Pearson so much and this is barely scratching the surface of their garbage :P
Time to download Virtualbox
Why?
So that you can run the windows exclusive software in a virtual machine.
Is Virtualbox still considered the go-to VM program? I haven't been keeping up.
Neither have I really. It’s the last one I used, which was like 5 years ago.
These days I’m mostly using docker containers but all my docker containers as well as my hosts are flavors of Linux so YMMV.
I recommend using a kernel virtual machine.
KVM comes with the Linux kernel.
If you want to set it up manually, you'll have to look into qemu and virtio.
If you want a more virtualbox-like experience, you can use boxes (also called "gnome boxes"), which gives you a very simple UI for setting up VMs (including windows) with networking/shared drives/hardware pass through/etc.
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Very much no
Use libvirtd/Qemu on Linux and Hyper-V on Windows
Just spoof your user agent string. You'll eventually find one they like.
I couldn't even use a virtual machine for my cert I had to use a Friends computer to even do anything and even that it was incredibly hard because I had to disable things to make it work. Fuck Pearson fuck them to hell completely.
Spin up a VM with windows 95 and try again.
... Set up firefox for windows via wine, if its a webapp?
Ezpz just use wine or set up a VM and exfil the data you need
Lutris -> chrome -> try again?