For a school, however, Windows does come with many benefits, primarily ease-of-use. It is a much easier operating system to learn, for sure. I can't imagine middle schoolers using linux.... faaar too stupid.
You trade a dubious amount of "ease-of-use" for a ton of "difficult-to-administrate." It's not that easy to use a PC that won't boot because "on Windows, everyone is root."
It's not the kids that are "faaar too stupid" to run Linux - they have no trouble figuring it out in our linux thin client lab (k12ltsp.org). It's the teachers who are afraid to learn something new.
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You trade a dubious amount of "ease-of-use" for a ton of "difficult-to-administrate." It's not that easy to use a PC that won't boot because "on Windows, everyone is root."
It's not the kids that are "faaar too stupid" to run Linux - they have no trouble figuring it out in our linux thin client lab (k12ltsp.org). It's the teachers who are afraid to learn something new.
It totally didn't happen that way.
Every time I find myself saying something like this, I have to remind myself of one thing: It totally didn't happen at all.