• wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    3·
    4 months ago

    It’s unfortunate how many replys are missing the good part of this and rather respond with criticism and negativity. We can do better than that folks. This is a good thing!

  • voxel@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    4 months ago

    Our textbooks (in Ukraine) used to include stuff on both windows and linux (specifically, linux mint with cinnamon), and included a chapter on libreoffice/openoffice

  • SuperSynthia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I’m surprised that open source technology isn’t used at American universities. My local university only has proprietary software which I guess makes sense because of industry standards, but the reality is learning on open source will be more beneficial in the long run.

    • Kindness@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Most proprietary companies will give very steep discounts or even free licences to schools and universities. If you introduce an entire generation of students to your software, students will gravitate toward what they’re familiar with when they enter the “real world”.

  • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Gimp is better suited for this role

    Krita is a art focused program

    You also cannot add information to blurted blurred pictures, you can only approximate

    • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 months ago

      Gen-Z Indian here. It’s for school kids, and they’re going to be drawing gibberish anyway. Attendance is how they grade. Back then, we used to play around with Paint on Windows XP. Good thing they’re getting exposure to open-source early.

    • Rogers@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 months ago

      Take 2 people that have not used gimp or krita. Ask them to daw a circle, and see which software they are able to do it in.

      Gimp is a ux nightmare (or at least it used to be i haven’t used ot in years) I will try gimp 3 when it comes out in 2037

  • toastal@lemmy.ml
    0·
    4 months ago

    I like seeing the Krita suggestion, but to just call it “open-source” with no clarification on that means would lead me to believe kids would skip over the hyphenated adjective without realizing it is often the key to finding other good, open-source software (e.g. a “open-source alternative to Reddit” query should lead one to Lemmy). I’m hoping it has a section or callout or even a vocab word on another page but I’m skeptical.

    (This is putting aside my quarrels with OSI, FSF, SPDX for the larger picture)

    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
      1·
      4 months ago

      Considering Linux have 15% marketshare in India, I’m pretty sure the curriculum already cover what open source is.