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by davesmith1983 2520 days ago
Well sometimes you don't get to use the tech you want. I almost never get the use the tech I want on a project, It is normally chosen for me by someone else and I have to live with their decisions.

People like to pretend that being required to use to use a Windows machine is akin to water-boarding or some other awful imposition.
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madez 2520 days ago
I don't want to use Windows. I won't work for anybody that forces me to use Windows. I can choose where to work. Children are forced to go to school, it is obligatory. That's why it is not okay to force children in schools to use Windows.

Computers for children are used for convenience or to solve problems. Neither of which requires Windows, or any other vendor-specific platform.

It's neither justified nor necessary to force children to use Windows or any other specific operating system in school.

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davesmith1983 2520 days ago
> Neither of which requires Windows, or any other vendor-specific platform.

If they don't require windows and it is OS agnostic it shouldn't matter whether they use Windows or something else.

> It's neither justified nor necessary to force children to use Windows or any other specific operating system in school.

You are talking about Children using Windows as if it was forcing them to clean chimneys. This is ridiculous.

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