In my opinion the push is actually caused by majority of the students blindly follow anything instructed by the lecturer.
In my university, lecturers recommend the IDE DrJava to do java assignments. Download it and you would find how hard it is to develope in DrJava, especially in debugging. Amazingly 99% of the first year undergraduate use DrJava panicly to debug their first and following programs.
If I refer to my lecturer, surely he will recommend DrJava. But I just don't care and I didn't even download and install this stupid IDE before.
So consider yourself as lucky being in a smart university. Most universities sux!
I have just reinstalled my system from Windows XP x64 back to the old Windows XP few days ago. (I don't dare to take vista as my main system as even XP x64 has so much incompabilities with some of my main drivers and programs) I bought an extra 500GB harddisk to store my data, so I did the following:
Backup data files - 2 hours
That was plain direct copying of 250GB worth of data from my old partition.
Format and install Windows XP on 2nd harddisk - 2 hours
After backing up the data harddisk the installation is direct. Did updates and installed some critical drivers and programs.
Backup system settings and preferences - 1 hour
Moving 50 msn emoticons is hell annoying. IE favorites, Azureus download list, desktop items, etc. A migration assistant would be good but only for this 1 hour. And I don't trust it will know everything I need to backup.
Beta test on new system - 2 days
Did works on the new system and make sure nothing critical was missed in the old system.
Format 1st harddisk, restore backup data - 2 hours
Say goodbye to my half year old XP x64.
Install softwares on new system - 8+ hours!
This is the most time consuming part. Office, firefox, azureus, apache, java, winrar, photoshop, flash, dreamweaver, quicktime, real, nero, cubase, etc etc. There is alot of software to be installed!
The reason I never use ghost image to restore is there is too many software updates and new software. Even if there is a good migration assistant it would still just help little on preferences backup. The time taken by the assistant would still be the same to backup my downloads, mp3s, ebooks, and photos.
Yes, I will not have an unstable linux to reformat, but there are too many applications I relies heavily which only run on windows. And I think the same amount of time would still be taken for me to migrate between linux distributions.
If I were rich I would throw $100 to a computer shop and ask the people reformat my computer in one day. But also only if they knew how exactly my new system should work.
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In my university, lecturers recommend the IDE DrJava to do java assignments. Download it and you would find how hard it is to develope in DrJava, especially in debugging. Amazingly 99% of the first year undergraduate use DrJava panicly to debug their first and following programs.
If I refer to my lecturer, surely he will recommend DrJava. But I just don't care and I didn't even download and install this stupid IDE before.
So consider yourself as lucky being in a smart university. Most universities sux!
I have just reinstalled my system from Windows XP x64 back to the old Windows XP few days ago. (I don't dare to take vista as my main system as even XP x64 has so much incompabilities with some of my main drivers and programs) I bought an extra 500GB harddisk to store my data, so I did the following: Backup data files - 2 hours That was plain direct copying of 250GB worth of data from my old partition. Format and install Windows XP on 2nd harddisk - 2 hours After backing up the data harddisk the installation is direct. Did updates and installed some critical drivers and programs. Backup system settings and preferences - 1 hour Moving 50 msn emoticons is hell annoying. IE favorites, Azureus download list, desktop items, etc. A migration assistant would be good but only for this 1 hour. And I don't trust it will know everything I need to backup. Beta test on new system - 2 days Did works on the new system and make sure nothing critical was missed in the old system. Format 1st harddisk, restore backup data - 2 hours Say goodbye to my half year old XP x64. Install softwares on new system - 8+ hours! This is the most time consuming part. Office, firefox, azureus, apache, java, winrar, photoshop, flash, dreamweaver, quicktime, real, nero, cubase, etc etc. There is alot of software to be installed! The reason I never use ghost image to restore is there is too many software updates and new software. Even if there is a good migration assistant it would still just help little on preferences backup. The time taken by the assistant would still be the same to backup my downloads, mp3s, ebooks, and photos. Yes, I will not have an unstable linux to reformat, but there are too many applications I relies heavily which only run on windows. And I think the same amount of time would still be taken for me to migrate between linux distributions. If I were rich I would throw $100 to a computer shop and ask the people reformat my computer in one day. But also only if they knew how exactly my new system should work.