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by tetris11 28 days ago
Similar experience at my early uni days in UK - no PC at home and lugging around a heavy laptop wasnt so easy, so I had Slackware on a USB stick and would routinely go to the computer clusters to boot it up over the Windows mess they had.

The physics dept. was full of GNU evangelists, so thankfully they had real Linux machines. Everywhere else though, Microsoft had sunk its claws into