Every government school here uses Linux. And there’s no security (password is “password” even for root account). The only reason it works is because everyone has common sense on what they shouldn’t do. The worst any kid could do is visit a “bad” site on a browser because no one knows how to do anything else.
Even the exam software assumes you don’t know how things in Linux works:
- The scores and answers are stored in simple non-encrypted SQLite3 databases at a directory in
/usr/share. - During the exam, the panel for launching applications is hidden, so you can’t cheat on questions like “What does this tool do in GIMP?” by opening GIMP. But you can just do
Ctrl + Alt + Tto launch the Terminal andAlt + Tabto switch to it.
I easily qualified for a State level competition where the education minister visited and had big news agencies visiting that made up a lot of nonsense. You can probably guess what the average student will be like from this
I went from GNOME on Ubuntu, to KDE on Manjaro, to XFCE on Manjaro, and finally i3 on Arch.
GNOME was sluggish and not customisable.
KDE had graphical glitches everywhere that made navigating interfaces annoying sometimes
On XFCE, I actually didn’t find that many issues. I just stopped using Manjaro and switched to i3 when doing so.