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Introducing KDE for Students

Make your #study sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your #finals with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in #academia... and will even run fine on your old laptop!

https://kde.org/for/students/

#students #school #university #college

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This looks cool!

lets you update whenever you want (e.g. not before a big deadline)

This is such a big plus, I was extra cautious that an update would break something right before finals

Any resources on dual booting? I didn't have a great experience with it and I feel like students may prefer that for the programs that only offer windows / macos support.

University courses are usually "we only offer support for Windows & MacOS", so a lot of students may give up on Linux unless they have the backup.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What I've understood thus far on dual booting is that it's never really safe unless you keep the two OS installations on different drives with each its own boot partition, so you never risk of one overwriting the other.
You can still try to install on a single drive, but, unless things have changed, you should make sure that Windows (don't know about macOS) is installed first and then you install a distribution second, you'll have trouble if it's a Fedora immutable flavor though because in my experience that erases the boot partition as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@QuazarOmega @otter if you plan on using bitlocker with windows, make sure to keep that recovery key handy. Updating grub/the kernel might trigger changes to the boot settings of your device, locking windows.

Getting a cheap device from a thriftshop for your second os should be considered as an option. Just my 2ct.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seconded, fortunately Windows makes you save that immediately after enabling it so I still had that key on me and Fedora has the ability to mount BitLocker encrypted drives so I was able to recover all my data