What's wrong with the way we teach FOSS to students
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Teaches only FOSS for seven years and runs courses in Linux shell scripting, Raspberry Pi IoT, Grafana + InfluxDB, MQTT, Git, Debian and uses Back for app instead of Firebase; one class of ~60 students resists command line habits, one student asks why use ifconfig vs ipconfig, another insists on running Linux in a VM or dual‑boot; faculty body is ~450 with only one FOSS-using faculty among 450 and ~275 women, many drop out after joining work; rebuilt a thesis system entirely with FOSS, once removed sudo by accident and had to reinstall.
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