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I just realized all my teachers use ubuntu (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I study math at uni and I was shocked realizing all my teachers use ubuntu on both their laptop and work desktop

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[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 143 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Not only did my math master's thesis adviser use Linux, he read his email from a command line program and wrote his papers in plain TeX, considering LaTeX a new fangled tool he didn't need.

[–] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 months ago

Chad

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 2 months ago

plain TeX is a joy to use, but you must really understand boxes and glue etc on a deep level. LaTeX makes that easier, but at the cost of extreme complexity internally (compare the output routines for example.)

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.

I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) gui's people used for icq messaging though.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait what? Telnet? I am guessing cybersecurity is not one of the classes available at your school.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

it might've been ssh i can't really remeber. The library catalog was maybe the telnet one. IIRC don't think either service was accesible via the internet though.

[–] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

TIL that plain TeX is a thing.

[–] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Elm or mutt? Say pine and I'll die

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

I think it was pine, actually, but it was over 10 years ago so I can't say for sure.

[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I set up Alpine to read my Gmail last summer, and while the nostalgia hit was nice, the browser version was more responsive and useful, cap I went back to that.