I’ve been in education for over 40 years. My employer requires that I use Windows. I have a history of knowing many platforms. Color Computer, Amiga 500,Amiga 1000, DOS, amstead, Video toaster, SGI and unix, Apple tablets, Apple phone, Apple desktop. Windows 3.1, 95, NT, XP,10, 11. Newton. I don’t evangelize on platform. Should I?
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Your question is ambiguous.
If the employer’s salary continuation plan is important to you, then you will be using Microsoft Windows 11, or will be acquiring a process exception. As a potential path toward complying the stated requirements, the Arm version of Windows 11 can run as a hypervisor guest on macOS, using Parallels.
If however your question is whether you should drop the “don’t” and “evangelize on platform” and seek to convince your employer to add or to replace Windows 11 with macOS, Linux whether AnduinOS or RHEL or Rocky or another fine Linux distribution, or a BSD, or another platform choice, you will need to better understand and address the training and cost and regulatory cases and constraints the IT staff. Without a good grasp of the costs and the trade-offs (IT and security and scholastic requirements, cross-platform availability of the required apps or equivalents, transition plan, benefits, and limitations), platform suggestions can be discounted or ignored.
This might also be (or become) a discussion of creating IT-aligned classes and curriculums that target a broader range of platforms beyond Windows 11, and architectures beyond x86-64. Or this curriculum might then become a pilot.
More generally, whether Windows 11 or macOS or Linux or some other tech taught in schools is often outdated within five years, if not sooner. Topics in tech churn and in history can arise here, too.
There’s no one right answer. And whatever you pick — by various measures — will be wrong.
Your question is ambiguous.
If the employer’s salary continuation plan is important to you, then you will be using Microsoft Windows 11, or will be acquiring a process exception. As a potential path toward complying the stated requirements, the Arm version of Windows 11 can run as a hypervisor guest on macOS, using Parallels.
If however your question is whether you should drop the “don’t” and “evangelize on platform” and seek to convince your employer to add or to replace Windows 11 with macOS, Linux whether AnduinOS or RHEL or Rocky or another fine Linux distribution, or a BSD, or another platform choice, you will need to better understand and address the training and cost and regulatory cases and constraints the IT staff. Without a good grasp of the costs and the trade-offs (IT and security and scholastic requirements, cross-platform availability of the required apps or equivalents, transition plan, benefits, and limitations), platform suggestions can be discounted or ignored.
This might also be (or become) a discussion of creating IT-aligned classes and curriculums that target a broader range of platforms beyond Windows 11, and architectures beyond x86-64. Or this curriculum might then become a pilot.
More generally, whether Windows 11 or macOS or Linux or some other tech taught in schools is often outdated within five years, if not sooner. Topics in tech churn and in history can arise here, too.
There’s no one right answer. And whatever you pick — by various measures — will be wrong.
dayru wrote:
I’ve been in education for over 40 years. My employer requires that I use Windows. I have a history of knowing many platforms. Color Computer, Amiga 500,Amiga 1000, DOS, amstead, Video toaster, SGI and unix, Apple tablets, Apple phone, Apple desktop. Windows 3.1, 95, NT, XP,10, 11. Newton. I don’t evangelize on platform. Should I?
Should you what?
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