Whats the best OS for a college CS student? A lot of professors seem to want you to install Ubuntu for various things

Whats the best OS for a college CS student? A lot of professors seem to want you to install Ubuntu for various things.

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Xubuntu or Devuan

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Fedora

Arch linux, because it is the best linux

Does it come with a gui to check ropes or install drivers like Ubuntu?
Also how does the Firewall work?

openSUSE Tumbleweed

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Just use what feels more comfortable to you. Ubuntu is not a bad choice if you want everything to just work.

Obviously if your a green CS student, you should use ubuntu? Why the fuck would you take an opinion from a random jackass? who are you trying to impress?

If you're a college student in any field, Windows with WSL is the best OS to use, because professors constantly want you to use tools that are only available for Windows and Mac, and never expect you to use tools that are *only* available on Linux since such tools do not exist since Linux is free and open-source.

lmaoing at your school. I used Linux the whole time there.

Bitch nigga answer the question

The recommended one. Don't be a snowflake. Don't hamstring yourself by installing something they can't support.

macOS was most preferable at my school. windows kids used cygwin and linux kids had no issues. when classes were taught in linux, we were given a VM image.

Ubuntu or Windows

Windows is needed if you are an SAP uni alliance school and the teachers are too dumb to provide a DL for the Linux client. Windows might also be needed if you do Web dev because everybody wants to use C# in Visual Studio.

Gentoo

Ubuntu, or anything that isnt too far derived from it so that it can still use the ubuntu official repos
Tbqh you professor is right here, ubuntu would be best for making sure you can quickly and painlessly install the same packages as everyone else in the class with few issues
Its literally the one (1) thing ubuntu has going for it though so i could forgive you for ignoring your professor

TempleOS.

The REAL answer:
Use whatever OS you're going to be using once you actually get a job. The last thing you need is to spend all of your school years using Arch, only to land a job in a purely Windows environment. Anyone who disagrees is a fuckin NEET, and should be disregarded by existence itself.

How the fuck are you going to predict that? And I'd argue learning Linux is still better. For Windows you just need to know how to use a GUI and learn some Powershell, which isn't hard.

Ubuntu is fine but literally anything will work. I've never had to use linux only software; and all OS's have SSH when you need to remote in, even iOS.

>spending thousands on school; don't know what you're gonna do when you get out
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Have fun at the help desk!

You're still a CS major, aren't you.

unironically windows 10 with visual studio

mac is the best because you will blend in better at the library.
Its hard to get macOS on other computers when you need it but easy to vm or dual boot windows&linux from a mac

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kde neon, pop os, or some other ubuntu derivative if you just want to get work done
gentoo or arch if you want to rice and learn a bit more about linux

Pop_OS

Is it actually any good? Seems solid from the site, but haven't had a chance to try it yet.

I just got a few certs, and got an easy office job. I don't make a lot of money, but I get to keep it all, and don't have loans to pay off. Plus, if I want to change jobs, I can just get a new cert. I used to install data cables, have a NACSE NCBT for that job. I got tired of that, and now I sit on my ass all day. My next cert is gonna be a microsoft office specialist cert. I don't even need it. But, for $500, I have nothing to lose, and all the easy typing pool jobs to gain.

My point is, in the real word, it's the tools you don't know, and that's impossible to prepare for. Maybe the job will use Windows, maybe it will be Linux, maybe both, maybe the real bitch will be the business analytics software they use you couldn't possibly get experience with beforehand because it requires buying a server from IBM, etc. You send out resumes for jobs, and you take what seems interesting. You can't predict EXACTLY the environment you're working on.

Maybe you're taking a life path that doesn't afford you enough control. It's true that you can't anticipate everything, but you can simply ask if the place you want to work is a linux or windows environment, and choose accordingly whether you want to work there. Before you tell me that choice is a luxury; it's a luxury afforded to those who pursue it. I wanted choice and control, so I took the easy route, and settled for less money. You may find yourself in a situation where you're lucky to get what you can, and have to gladly take it, and I'm not casting aspersions. I'm merely saying that I couldn't fathom taking out loans to spend 4 to 8 years of my life doing something if I wasn't certain of the outcome.

probably windows but it sucks so use some dope shit like fedora or void

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Just choose some basic Linux distro. Ubuntu should be fine.

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Xubuntu, fully compatible Ubuntu base without the hot steaming turd that is GNOME.

KDE is good too but I have never used Kubuntu.

If you've never used linux, just stick with ubuntu.
The only thing I recommend you to do is reading about disk partitioning and making a separate partition for /home dir, so you could painlessly jump to other distro if you want to.

>i3-gaps
imagine