The other day one of my son’s freind was over at our house just after my son had upgraded to Mandriva 2007 on his computer. After playing around the 3D desktop and geting as MS puts it “the wow factor” he came up with a comment as regards to computing in schools
His idea was, “If schools used Linux, they in mastering this OS would be able to learn much more than they do at present using mainly Microsoft products”. In his opinion learning Linux would not hinder students as they would still at a user level have no problems with a Microsoft system, if they needed to use one, but due to the nature of Linux being more than just a desktop, schools using Linux would have a much greater scope for more advanced learning yet still have the tools for the basic stuff.
It would be interesting to get a few people’s opinon’s on this point of view. Another benifit may be by going with Linux schools will be able to reduce their computing costs. In my view I see adoption of Linux in schools would be a positive step.
