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this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2024
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There's a lot of universities using Linux on their pc labs, I guess you can look up how they admin their systems to compare. When I was in college, I had a programming class (R language for actuarial sciences) and the computer had some restrictions, like we couldn't save anything locally so we had to plug a pendrive to save our scripts and we couldn't install any library not installed by default.
Unis tend to be a mess because professors and department heads can just say "I don't want any sysadmin telling me what to do with my machines" and that's that.
A universities desktop environments are not the same risk level of a corporate. All the uni I have seen have trash management. In corpos its a mix of trash and highly polished depending on who is in charge.