Keeping a PC Personal At School?

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 1, 2009 @06:27PM from the mine-mine-mine dept.

Berto Kraus writes "As one of the most tech-oriented students in my art-oriented institution, I'm usually the one with the laptop. This causes frequent requests from other students to read mail, check some site, or connect it to the projector to display a file from their Flash drive. For the sake of my privacy, the health of my laptop, and my own peace of mind, I'm reluctant. But telling my compatriots to go to our building supervisor and ask him for a desktop-on-a-cart, as they should do, is considered rude and unfriendly. Now, I could dual-boot Ubuntu, or carry around a Linux-on-a-stick. Or I could embed the computer in my skull. For many reasons, none of these solutions is ideal. So I'm asking you, insightful and funny Slashdotters, what would you do to keep your PC personal at school?"

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Re:easy. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-01 19:13 · Score: -1, Troll

However, if you are running a recent version of Fedora, there's fuck all chance you or anyone else will actually be able to use the computer, since the developers go out of their way to break everything, and don't bother to fix it. They are too busy ramming kernel mode setting or "plymouth" or hideous lion wallpaper down everyone's throats.