“Upgrading” to a supported operating system… “Upgrading”.
Yeah, that was also what got into my nerves.
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Same pearson selling linux books
I just tried to do a certification exam with these pricks a few hours ago. It was my first time and I was not expecting the degree of privacy-violating photos they would need of my workspace. I work in my bedroom and my desk wasn’t clean enough. I think. I could barely understand what the guy was saying due to his thick accent. I think I got disconnected twice and just gave up. Fucking scam. All for a worthless piece of fucking paper to prove I can do the same job I’ve been doing for the past 13+ years.
Was that a ccna certification? I’ve heard they are quite strict on home exam conditions
Nah. Just basic Azure stuff.
They mean downgrade
But Lemmy told me you can do everything on Linux and there’s never compatibility issues! 😱
There isn’t, in this case. Now stop being a tool.
a “compatibility issue” would be if the website didn’t load or display incorrectly, but as others pointed out, if you change your “user agent” (the code that tells websites what os and brower you use) to windows, it runs perfectly well
also, piss off, nobody’s saying there are no difficultiesNo one told you that and you’re mom is lying to you
*your
They should be extremely infuriated that you are using some old and busted software that doesn’t support a common OS.
The funny thing is that their server is probably running on Linux.
they aren’t all. vast majority is Windows Server and IBM.
edit: because people seem confused. I’m talking about Pearson directly, not global OS stats.
chill tf out Linux weebs. I’m one of you.
That is both laughably wrong, and immediately verifiable as false. As far as server marketshare goes, Linux leads the pack with 62.7%.
Windows has a laughable market share when it comes to webservers.
I’m talking specifics, not globally.
Nearly all of my daughters sites she visited in college were nix servers. The exception being one administration machine she used for her payroll access as a RA.
By “nix” do you actually mean Nix, or do you mean “*nix” as any Unix derivative?
Guess.
Edit: ;) I guess you are all guessing poorly. Nix when I looked it up is just another fringe linix distro. Never heard of it because I don’t need a purpose built crippled distro for anything. Since a guess is too hard to do I will tell you even now most websites I access according to my router stats are Linix distros. Every now and then there will be a bsd based one and ever rarer than that a windows site. I’m seeing these downvotes as a function of bias against the norm. I find it funny and responses like this always bring a smile to my face.
Guess what most IBM big irons are running nowadays?
RHEL, since they bought red hat.
z/OS
For closed and proprietary stuff, and things that still run on FORTRAN and COBOL, yes. But about anything running a web frontend, it’s Linux (RHEL).
Unix
Well, AIX (one of IBMs UNIX variants) is old, and, AFAIK more or less legacy stuff. The other is RHEL, which is s Linux.
The world runs on legacy
Dust? (but really its not Linux or windows anyway)
AIX (Unix), Windows, Powervm?
Windows? On a mainframe? Microsoft may be ambicious, but that is a few number to big for them.
Lol what? Linux servers are still dominant in market share.
Pearson directly, not globally.
That makes more sense. Thank you for the context.
The Pearson website for assignments and exercises is definitely in by bottom-ten user experiences on the internet. And it’s even a paid tool! Fuck pearson
Would you share your preferred alternative(s), if any? Thanks! 🖐️
Just a maths workbook I guess. This was just forced on me as a student so I’m not really aware if the alternatives.
Also, fuck the profs for choosing to use it, and make it a requirement for a course.
if it’s in a browser fake ur user agent
That kind of fuckery drove me off a company-sponsored training course.
used unlicensed windows vm back in college. user agent change is faster
Change your user agent. There’s a bunch of extensions for that and they don’t compromise functionality.
This is like the Apple Business website, which only works in Safari, according to them. Used the User-Agent Switcher plugin, and the website/dashboard works just fine on Firefox in Linux.
welp, I use Vivaldi without any user-agent switching and it works fine
You heard that OP? That’s how you do it, it’ll still work on Linux.
For the record, my friend (he uses arch btw) has used Pearson before and I dont believe it actually affected him, so to me the message means “it could work for you but we won’t support Linux if something screws up on your end because we’re lazy developers”
